# English Wikipedia Projects at AI Tinkerers

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The world's largest, first-launched English-language online encyclopedia: over 7.1 million articles, created and edited by a global volunteer community.

English Wikipedia is the original and most extensive edition of the free online encyclopedia. Launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it was the first Wikipedia edition. The platform, hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, currently maintains over 7.1 million articles (the largest article count of any edition). This content is collaboratively built by a global community of volunteer editors (Wikipedians). The English edition drives significant traffic, accounting for 48% of Wikipedia's total global usage.

- Official technology site: https://en.wikipedia.org
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Building a GPT-2 level LLM from scratch](https://dubai.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_LfaYKjax6j4)

This project trains a GPT-2-level large language model (LLM) from scratch, allowing you to explore how modern LLMs are built and trained. By experimenting with smaller or larger models, as well as small (public-domain text) or large (English Wikipedia) datasets, you can better understand the inner workings and trade-offs involved in training such models.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - Dubai Meetup #4 (January) — 2025-01-05 — Dubai
- Public talk page: https://dubai.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_LfaYKjax6j4

## Related Technologies

- [GPT-2](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/gpt-2) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/gpt-2.md)) — 4 public demos
- [GPT models](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/gpt-models) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/gpt-models.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Public-domain text](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/public-domain-text) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/public-domain-text.md)) — 1 public demo