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'''Wikipedia''' is a collaboratively-edited online encyclopedia found at https://wikipedia.org . It started off with [[Wikipedia#English Wikipedia|English Wikipedia]], but within a few years expanded to several languages.
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=== English Wikipedia ===
:''Wikipedia article: [[wikipedia:English Wikipedia|English Wikipedia]]''
English Wikipedia started in 2001. By 2002, there were many electoral reform articles. By 2004, [[wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] was formed, and started using [[Schulze method]] to select their board.{{citation needed}} By 2005, some English Wikipedia editors were getting annoyed with electoral reform enthusiasts, and [[Electowiki]] was started. Experienced Wikipedians frequently refer to this wiki as "enwiki", because it is hosted at the "en" subdomain of wikipedia.org (i.e. it is hosted at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page en.wikipedia.org]).
=== German Wikipedia ===
:''Wikipedia article: [[Wikipedia:German Wikipedia|German Wikipedia]]''
German Wikipedia is another large and very influential edition of Wikipedia. Different language editions of Wikipedia are called "wikis", and the nicknames assigned to each wiki are frequently the two-letter ISO language designation for the language, followed by the word "wiki". German Wikipedia is often referred to as "dewiki", because the two-letter ISO language designation for the German language is "de", and the site is hosted at [https://de.wikipedia.org de.wikipedia.org].
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