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The 16 pages that link to Wikipedia, each with the reason it gives.

• User-generated contentBroader topic: It demonstrates large-scale user contribution to a reference work.

• Creative Commons licensesRelated: Its license permits reuse and adaptation while requiring attribution and compatible sharing.

• CommonsBroader topic: Its volunteers collectively maintain a widely used knowledge resource.

• Web 2.0Broader topic: It demonstrates large-scale knowledge production by volunteers.

• Collaborative writingBroader topic: Its articles are built through ongoing contributions from many editors.

• EncyclopediaBroader topic: It demonstrates large-scale collaborative encyclopedia publishing on the web.

• Social EpistemologyBroader topic: Its editing practices make distributed knowledge production visible and contestable.

• WikiBroader topic: It is the best-known large-scale example of a public wiki.

• CrowdsourcingBroader topic: It is a prominent example of an open community producing a shared reference work.

• Jimmy WalesBroader topic: Wales co-founded the project that became his most influential venture.

• Free-culture movementBroader topic: Its shared authorship and reusable content exemplify free-culture principles.

• Larry SangerRelated: Sanger helped launch Wikipedia in 2001 as a faster complement to Nupedia.

• Wikimedia FoundationBroader topic: Wikipedia is the Foundation’s best-known project and its largest public-facing service.

• Tertiary sourceBroader topic: Its open editing and citations make questions of compilation and verification especially visible.

• History of encyclopediasBroader topic: Its open editing model reshaped the scale and speed of encyclopedic production.

• Open knowledgeBroader topic: It demonstrates large-scale creation and distribution of openly licensed reference knowledge.