This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia 00:02:39 1 History 00:02:48 1.1 Nupedia 00:04:10 1.2 Launch and early growth 00:08:49 1.3 Milestones 00:12:13 2 Openness 00:12:59 2.1 Restrictions 00:14:39 2.2 Review of changes 00:15:55 2.3 Vandalism 00:18:15 3 spanPolicies and laws 00:19:19 3.1 Content policies and guidelines 00:20:56 4 Governance 00:21:42 4.1 Administrators 00:22:53 4.2 Dispute resolution 00:23:40 4.2.1 Arbitration Committee 00:25:21 5 Community 00:28:58 5.1 Studies 00:30:45 5.2 Diversity 00:31:54 6 Language editions 00:36:39 6.1 English Wikipedia editor decline 00:38:52 7 Reception 00:40:33 7.1 Accuracy of content 00:45:55 7.2 Discouragement in education 00:47:27 7.2.1 Medical information 00:49:17 7.3 Quality of writing 00:53:11 7.4 Coverage of topics and systemic bias 00:55:37 7.4.1 Coverage of topics and selection bias 00:56:33 7.4.2 Systemic bias 00:59:40 7.5 Explicit content 01:03:11 7.6 Privacy 01:04:40 7.7 Sexism 01:05:24 8 Operation 01:05:34 8.1 Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia movement affiliates 01:09:00 8.2 Software operations and support 01:11:23 8.3 Automated editing 01:12:56 8.4 Hardware operations and support 01:14:31 8.5 Internal research and operational development 01:16:24 8.6 Internal news publications 01:17:39 9 Access to content 01:17:49 9.1 Content licensing 01:20:48 9.2 Methods of access 01:24:52 9.2.1 Mobile access 01:29:52 10 Cultural impact 01:30:02 10.1 Trusted source to combat fake news 01:31:01 10.2 Readership 01:32:55 10.3 Cultural significance 01:38:34 10.3.1 Awards 01:40:33 10.3.2 Satire 01:44:43 10.4 Sister projects – Wikimedia 01:45:52 10.5 Publishing 01:47:43 10.6 Research use 01:49:26 11 Related projects 01:51:36 12 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8615298887153973 Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-F "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Wikipedia ( (listen), (listen) WIK-ih-PEE-dee-ə) is a multilingual online encyclopedia with exclusively free content and no ads, based on open collaboration through a model of content editing using web-based applications such as web browsers, called wiki. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web, and is one of the most popular websites by Alexa rank as of April 2019. It is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates on money it receives from donors to remain ad free.Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined its name, as a portmanteau of wiki (the Hawai'ian word for "quick") and "encyclopedia". Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions in other languages were quickly developed. With 5,853,381 articles, the English Wikipedia is the largest of the more than 290 Wikipedia encyclopedias. Overall, Wikipedia comprises more than 40 million articles in 301 different languages and by February 2014 it had reached 18 billion page views and nearly 500 million unique visitors per month.In 2005, Nature published a peer review comparing 42 hard science articles from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of Britannica, although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues. The following year, Time magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.Wikipedia has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, for presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods", and for being subject to manipulation and spin in controversial topics. In 2017, Facebook announced that it would help readers detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikipedia articles. YouTube announced a sim ...