Wikipedia & It's Journey Wikipedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about this encyclopedia. For the English edition, see English Wikipedia . For Wikipedia's home page, see Main Page . For Wikipedia's visitor introduction, see Wikipedia:About . For other uses, see Wikipedia (disambiguation) . "The Free Encyclopedia" redirects here. For a list of other encyclopedias, see Lists of encyclopedias . Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger . [14] Sanger coined its name, [15] [16] as a portmanteau of " wiki " (the Hawaiian word for "quick") [17] and "encyclopedia". Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions of Wikipedia in other languages were quickly developed. With 6.1 million...