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The domain name www.wikipedia.com went live for the first time on the 15th of January 2001. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched this project to complement Nupedia, an earlier encyclopedia effort that relied on expert writers and formal peer review.
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia in December 2000 as a feeder project to feed articles into Nupedia's slow approval process. Their original goal was to create a free online encyclopedia using wiki software to allow anyone to edit articles immediately.
Wikipedia received 42.9 million unique visitors in January 2007 when it ranked ninth among US websites. This marked a significant rise from thirty-third place just one year earlier.
Only 13% of editors identified as female according to the 2008 Wikimedia Foundation survey. Studies showed that women reported less confidence in their expertise and greater discomfort with editing processes involving conflict.
Hardware operations rely on Linux servers running Debian operating systems. Primary data centers moved to Ashburn Virginia by January 2013, and a second facility opened in Carrollton Texas during 2014 for redundancy.