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Introduction to contributing to Wikipedia</div> <div class="introtosingle__lead"> <div class="center"> Wikipedia is a <a href="/wiki/Free_content" title="Free content">free</a> <a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia" title="Encyclopedia">encyclopedia</a>, written <a href="/wiki/Wiki" title="Wiki">collaboratively</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Who_writes_Wikipedia%3F" title="Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia?">people who use it</a>. Since 2001, it has grown rapidly to become the world's largest reference website, with 6.9<span class="nowrap"> </span>million articles in English attracting <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org">billions</a></span> of views every month. 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It's fine to use common sense as you edit, and if you accidentally make a mistake, another editor can always fix or improve it later. 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