Guía de recomendaciones y buenas prácticas para editar el contenido científico de Wikipedia

[From Google translate] Guide to recommendations and best practices for editing the scientific content of Wikipedia

 Wikipedia,"the free encyclopedia that everyone can edit", was created in 2001. The English version of Wikipedia has more than 5 million articles and the Spanish version more than 1.2: figures that place it well above any previous encyclopaedic project. There are in fact more than 280 language versions of Wikipedia, and for many of these languages Wikipedia has become the first encyclopedia they have ever had. It is currently the seventh most visited website on the Internet - only surpassed by Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, Baidu and Amazon. The English version receives more than 7.8 billion hits each month and the Spanish version 423 million - the first and fourth, respectively, in this rankings. Furthermore, unlike these other large Internet portals, Wikipedia is not owned by any private company or any large multinational corporation.

Wikipedia is not private property, but it is not public property in the usual sense, since it does not belong to a public administration, state or government. Strictly speaking, it is a common good and therefore belongs to the common good. All its content is published under a Creative Commons license (specifically the CC-BY-SA version) that allows anyone to copy, distribute and modify or adapt its contents freely. The management and maintenance of Wikipedia is basically in the hands of its publishers and users. There is a non-profit foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports both Wikipedia and its "brothers" projects (Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc.), but this support basically consists of promotion activities and maintenance of the technical infrastructure of servers. Funding to maintain this infrastructure is obtained through voluntary donations from institutions and individual users. It has to be said, however, that the Wikimedia Foundation is not in charge at all of organising, managing or controlling the most important and intensive task of the virtual encyclopedia: editing, revising and improving its articles. This monumental work is in the hands of the immense community of volunteer wikipedists formed by more than 22 million registered users, an even greater number of anonymous users and, among them, more than 300,000 people who manage to make more than 10 editions per month.