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Wikipedia
Tags: encyclopedia Wikimedia
Who benefits: General public
Who can help: Anyone with knowledge to offer on a specific topic
Wiki website: http://en.wikipedia.org/
Popularity score (?): 92
Rating:
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Comments: 1
Submitted: 2008-07-15
Last edited: 2009-06-05
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest, fastest-growing, and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Wikipedia is a project that attempts to summarize all human knowledge.
As of April 2008, Wikipedia attracts 683 million visitors annually reading over 10 million articles in 253 languages, comprising a combined total of over 1.74 billion words for all Wikipedias. The English Wikipedia edition passed the 2,000,000-article mark on September 9, 2007, and as of July 15, 2008 it had 2,457,002 articles consisting of over 1,048,000,000 words.
Wikipedia's articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and nearly all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet. Having steadily risen in popularity since its inception, it currently ranks among the top ten most-visited web sites worldwide.
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This is not a good wiki because there is so much spam. Once, I went on to look at Hamsters, and the page was covered with an image of a dead cat over and over.
Posted by Anti-Spam Squad Member-#013 on April 23, 2009 at 02:34 pm