Lesson 2. Navigating the Wikipedia Site
In this lesson, you learn the main parts of the Wikipedia site—and how to find them.
Welcome to Wikipedia’s Main Page
As you learned in Lesson 1, “Getting to Know Wikipedia,” Wikipedia is a giant online encyclopedia, with all content contributed by the site’s users. Articles are available in more than 250 different languages—and you get to these languages right from Wikipedia’s home page.
The Wikipedia general home page is located at www.wikipedia.org. That’s dot ORG, not dot COM—although entering www.wikipedia.com redirects to the correct page. As you can see in Figure 2.1, this page includes links to Wikipedia in different languages; click a language to go to the Wikipedia site in the language you want. ...
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