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  2. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

    the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 6,822,376 articles in English. From today's featured article. Leucippus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE. He is credited with founding atomism, with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void ...

  3. Help:Searching - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching

    The search box is an input box with the term "Search Wikipedia" in it. In the Vector skin, it is located in the top right corner of the screen. In Monobook, it is in the middle of the sidebar on the left of the screen. To use the search box, click in it, or jump to it, and type in your search string.

  4. English Wikipedia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia

    The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization.

  5. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

    Wikipedia [note 3] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki -based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.

  6. Help:Searching from a web browser - Wikipedia

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    Under Site search, click Add and choose a name and keyword for Wikipedia search. (for example, the keyword can be "wiki") You will use the keyword in the address bar to search Wikipedia directly by typing the keyword and then either tab or space depending on your settings.

  7. Wikipedia:About - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About

    Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and millions already have . Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by presenting information on all branches of knowledge. Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, it consists of freely editable content, whose articles also have numerous links to guide readers towards more information.

  8. Help:Searching/Features - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching/Features

    Search is a search engine that does a full text search by querying an index database. It offers search syntax and parameters exceeding the capabilities and control of other public search engines that could search Wikipedia. Page score. Say the search box is given two words. The search starts with two index lookups, and the two results are ...

  9. History of Wikipedia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia

    In Wikipedia, there is an official central website for each language (en.wikipedia.org), and an official catalogue of sorts (category-lists and lists-of-lists), but as of 2013 search engines still provide about 60% of the inbound traffic.