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Wikipedia is an online free encyclopedia.There are more than 38 million articles about society,history,culture,music,science,technology,geography and so on.On this website,people can find articles about almost everything in the world.Wikipedia has also developed 292 language versions for people to read in their own languages.

Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger started this encyclopedia project on 9th March,2000.It was called Nupedia at first.and all the articles were written and checked by experts.Wales thought that the websitc should be a place where its users could not only find information but also share what they knew.So they tried to use a wiki systen(wiki is a Hawaiian word"wee kee wee kee"which firstly meant"quick").On 10th January,2001,they began a new project to improve Nupedia.On 15th January.2001,the new online encyclopedia named Wikipedia was set up.Wikipedia achieved a great success.

According to the Alexa Traffic Rank report on 22nd May,2016,Wikipedia is the seventh most popular website in the world.Every single user helps to make this popular free encyclopedia.

26.Wikipedia is  

A.a book  

B.a library  

C.a report  

D.a website

27.Wikipedia was set up on  

A.9th March,2000      

B.10th January,2001

C.15th January,2001   

D.22nd May,2016

28.What can pepole use Wikipedia to do?  

A.To read novels.

B.To search for information

C.To listen to music.

C.To read Alexa Traffic Rank.

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