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History of Wikipedia. The English edition of Wikipedia has grown to 6,826,452 articles. [1] Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2]
Contents. Wikipedia:Authors of Wikipedia. This essay describes the authors of Wikipedia (also called Wiki-authors) and how articles are developed. For the majority of articles, Wikipedia has become an immense " pot-luck dinner ". [1] The articles are, mostly, a somewhat random collection of information that many people thought to be worthy of ...
There are currently 47,453,729 Wikipedia accounts, of which 120,533 have made at least one edit during the last month. Wikipedia is in the palm of your hand—all you need to do is edit an article. Wikipedians are volunteers who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages, unlike readers who simply read the articles.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3] His novels include The Adventures of Tom ...
Joanne Rowling CH OBE FRSL ( / ˈroʊlɪŋ / ROH-ling; [1] born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote Harry Potter, a seven-volume fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media ...
Jane Meredith Mayer (born 1955) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995. She has written for the publication about money in politics; government prosecution of whistleblowers; the United States Predator drone program; Donald Trump's ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz; and Trump's financial backer, Robert Mercer.
J. D. Salinger. Jerome David Salinger ( / ˈsælɪndʒər / SAL-in-jər; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II. [1]