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Wikipedia
Wikipedia (January 2001) is the first major encyclopedia that anyone can edit, written and checked by volunteers.
Open in the interactive tree →Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it now has over 60 million articles in more than 300 languages under free licences. It is both a standard first stop for knowledge and a core source of training text for language models.
Prerequisites
- Enlightenment & Encyclopedia1715-1789
- Open Licences (GPL, CC)1989
- World Wide Web1991
Unlocks
- Large Language Models2022Wikipedia is a core part of the text used to train language models
Sources
More in Humanities & Culture · Digital Age
- Unicode1991