Wikipedia (pronounced /ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdi.ə/WI-ki-PEE-dee-ə) is a free,[4]web-based, collaborative, multilingualencyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's 14 million articles (3.1 million in English)
have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and
almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the
site.