Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:

A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as web address, [6] is a reference to a resource on the World Wide Web. A URL specifies the location of a resource on a computer …

Wikipedia[c] is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded …

For all that time, Wikipedia's stayed free. We do not run ads—we rely on the support of everyday readers. Only 2% ever donate. But that small group makes a big difference. When you support …

URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page.

English Wikipedia's URLs begin https://en.wikipedia.org/. That address on its own is redirected to the Main Page. The page name may include a namespace prefix (such as "Help:" in this page).

The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as …

Aug 24, 2020 · By replacing "en" with the code for another language, you can reach the Main Page of the wikipedia in that language, if it exists. For example, replacing "mr" in place of "en" …

Nov 5, 2025 · A URL starting with www.wikipedia.org redirects to the corresponding one starting with en; only www.wikipedia.org itself leads to a portal page instead of the main page of the …