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As of September , Wikipedia had about 18 million pages in about languages and more than 3. The regular English Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia edition. Wikipedia began as a related project for Nupedia. Nupedia was a free English-language online encyclopedia project. Nupedia's articles were written and owned by Bomis, Inc which was a web portal company.