Type | Informal organization of individual contributors |
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Focus | Free, open-content, wiki-based Internet encyclopedias |
Area served | Worldwide |
Services | Authoring and editing Wikipedia |
Website | wikipedia |
The Wikipedia community, collectively and individually known as Wikipedians, is an online community of volunteers who create and maintain Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. Since August 2012, the word "Wikipedian" has been an Oxford Dictionary entry.[1] Wikipedians may or may not consider themselves part of the Wikimedia movement, a global network of volunteer contributors to Wikipedia and other related projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.