Welcome to Wikipedia, a collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch. We started in January 2001 and already have over 23,000 articles. We want to make over 100,000, so let's get to work--with few exceptions, anyone can edit any article--copyedit, expand an article, write a little, write a lot. See the Wikipedia FAQ for information on how to edit pages and other questions.

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Encyclopedia articles about the topics behind the news.

Current events - 2002 Winter Olympic Games - Enron

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Culture

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Other Category Schemes

About Wikipedia category schemes - Complete list of encyclopedia topics - Library of Congress catalog scheme - Dewey Decimal System - Wikipedia arranged by topic - Historical timeline - Historical anniversaries - Reference tables - Biographical Listing - Current events

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About the non-English Wikipedias - Afrikaans - Arabic (Araby) - Basque (Euskara) - Catalan (Català) - Chinese (Hanyu) - Danish (Dansk) - Dutch (Nederlands) - Esperanto - French (Français) - German (Deutsch) - Hebrew (Ivrit) - Hungarian (Magyar) - Italian (Italiano)  - Japanese (Nihongo) - Norwegian (Norsk) - Polish (Polska) - Portuguese (Português) - Russian (Russkiy) - Serbocroatian (Croatoserbian) - Spanish (Castellano) - Swedish (Svensk)

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About the project: Announcements - How to edit a page - FAQ - Policy - Feature requests - Bug reports - Mailing list - Wikipedia and Nupedia - Wikipedians - Wikipedia Chat

Article pointers: New topics - Brilliant prose - Receive articles daily by e-mail - Go to a random page - Index of all pages

Content requests: Requested articles - Help desk

Useful resources for us: Wikipedia utilities - Tarballs of Wikipedia data - Public domain resources - Commentary, which is being transferred to meta.wikipedia.com - Sandbox

Selected press coverage: The New York Times -- December 9, 2001 - The New York Times -- September 20, 2001 - MIT's Technology Review

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