OVIEDO, Spain: Spain’s King Felipe VI awarded online encyclopaedia Wikipedia the country’s Princess of Asturias award for international cooperation, hailing it a “universal symbol of teamwork”.
In a glittering ceremony held in the northern city of Oviedo attended by US entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, who founded Wikipedia in 2001, the king said the online encyclopaedia “wants to put culture within reach of the greatest number of people possible”.
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