The left-wing political bias is said to have reached a peak since 2014, during the early days of what has been described as the ' Great Awokening,' in which it is said to have become a tightly-controlled enterprise dominated by ' thought police' and run by a small number of users who have been described by their critics as radical left-wing extremists. Many schools and colleges have banned their students from using Wikipedia as a source, as the teachers have stated that its content is not to be trusted. While Wikipedia claims to have an official policy of Neutral Point of View (NPOV), which was first coined by Larry Sanger shortly after its founding in 2001, it has been increasingly accused of being a left-wing organization that publishes unreliable pseudohistory and pseudoscience, along with inaccurate and, in some cases, slanderous attacks on living people, which has contributed towards the creation of alternative wikis, such as Conservapedia and Metapedia, while Sanger, who left the project in 2002, has been critical of Wikipedia ever since and founded his own wiki, Citizendium, in 2006 to counter the perceived bias on the site. Today, there are over 290 Wikipedia editions. Wikipedia was only available in the English language initially, but it quickly became multilingual as it developed similar versions in other languages which differ in content and in editing practices. Sanger coined its name, a portmanteau of wiki and encyclo pedia.

Online entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and his friend at the time, Larry Sanger, launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001. Wikipedia is an internet website that describes itself as an open source online encyclopedia, i.e., a site that can be edited and added to by any contributors.

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