Wikipedia:Purpose
Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by acting as a widely accessible and free encyclopedia; a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge. The goal of a Wikipedia article is to present a neutrally written summary of existing mainstream knowledge in a fair and accurate manner with a straightforward, "just-the-facts style". Articles should have an encyclopedic style with a formal tone instead of essay-like, argumentative, promotional or opinionated writing.
- Concept of an encyclopedia
- Wikipedia is intended to be the largest, most comprehensive, and most widely available encyclopedia ever written
- Wikipedia's content is governed by three principal core content policies - neutral point of view, verifiability, and no original research
See also
- Administration – discusses both the human administrative structure of Wikipedia, as well as its non-human components.
- The Free Encyclopedia – describes how Wikipedia is "Free" as in Free Software and Free Culture.
- The essence of Wikipedia – describes how Wikipedia uses collective intelligence, collaboration, and preservation to build, expand, and improve content.
- Statement of principles – by the co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, as updated by the community since then.
- What Wikipedia is not – describes how there are certain things that Wikipedia is not.
- Offline access – describes how to access Wikipedia's free content without internet access.
- Original Wikipedia policy – as edited by the co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, on 1 November 2001.
References
External links
External videos | |
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Jimmy Wales: The birth of Wikipedia, 2005 TED (conference), 20 mins. |
- What is Wikipedia? – The Wikimedia Foundation.
- Mission statement – The Wikimedia Foundation.
- Statement of Purpose – Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws Article II .
- Foundation Guiding Principles – The Wikimedia Foundation.
- Wikimedia founding principles – Principles generally supported by all of the Wikimedia communities.
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