Wikipedia background

“Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project” (Wikipedia). Launched first in English on 15th January 2001, Wikipedia serves approximately 7.8 million articles in 252 languages, varying from the wide used English to Swati, a language spoken in the Kingdom of Swaziland, a small, landlocked country in South Africa (List of Wikipedias). Founded by Jimmy Wales, and controversially Larry Sanger (Bergstein, 2007), wikipedia.org now is now ranked number 9 on the most visited sites worldwide (Alexa, 2007).