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With more than 6 million articles on the English Wikipedia, how do you get to the one you want? For example, when a reader types "mercury" into the search box, what article do they expect to be displayed? What if someone creates an article called "Mercury (Roman god)" when there already is one called "Mercury (mythology)"?
Wikipedia depends on editors to fix naming errors, to create pages (redirects) that automatically correct typing errors, and to set out guideposts to readers to help them find their way (disambiguation). The cumulative effort of millions of editors has created a web of articles and links that get virtually all readers to the right place within one click.