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If you are someone who regularly surfs the net, you have very probably heard of Wikipedia, the biggest on-line encyclopaedia in the world, a multilingual project that internet surfers can actually take part in themselves: any user can enter his or her knowledge on the most diverse subjects. The encyclopaedia, which has become something of a web phenomenon, is growing every day.

The project counts on the support of thousands of volunteers that increase the encyclopaedia with the articles they write, which are published immediately and can be modified by other volunteers in order to add to them or amend them with their own contributions.

Wikipedia was founded on the 15th of January 2001 by the North Americans Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, enthused by the idea of creating an encyclopaedia with the sum of knowledge held by people from all over the world. Today, Wales' and Sanger's concept is a growing reality, attested by its figures: over 1,500,000 articles written in more than a hundred languages, including Catalan. In fact, Catalan is one of the more than twenty languages with over 10,000 articles. Indeed, Viquipèdia, as it is called in the Catalan version, includes around 15,000 entries.