howmany people know about the wilkipedia?

India
March 25, 2009 5:21am CST
hi guys, wilkipedia its a wonderful concept by the wilkipedia foundation. Do you people know more than about this.
5 responses
@agrim94 (3805)
• India
29 Mar 09
This is what Wikipedia ( i hope u meant Wikipedia) has to say about itself Wikipedia (pronunciation Spoken content icon) is a free,[5] multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning 'quick') and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's 12 million articles (2.8 million in the English Wikipedia) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website.[6] Launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger,[7] it is currently the most popular[3] general reference work on the Internet.[8][9][10] Critics of Wikipedia accuse it of systemic bias and inconsistencies,[11] and target its policy of favoring consensus over credentials in its editorial process.[12] Wikipedia's reliability and accuracy are also an issue.[13] Other criticisms are centered on its susceptibility to vandalism and the addition of spurious or unverified information,[14] though scholarly work suggests that vandalism is generally short-lived.[15][16] Jonathan Dee, of The New York Times,[17] and Andrew Lih, in the 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism,[18] have cited the importance of Wikipedia not only as an encyclopedic reference but also as a frequently-updated news resource. When Time magazine recognized You as its Person of the Year for 2006, acknowledging the accelerating success of online collaboration and interaction by millions of users around the world, it cited Wikipedia as one of three examples of Web 2.0 services, along with YouTube and MySpace.[19]
1 person likes this
• Indonesia
30 Mar 09
for 1 hours ago, i read about wikipedia, where it have best and bad section. but i realy thanks for wikipedia foundation for their article collections....
@daliaj (5674)
• India
25 Mar 09
It is wikipedia. Yes, it is a very useful website. I use that often because I am working with content. It also has some public domain picutres....but, I don't know how trustworthy the content is because I think...it gives everybody the right to edit the existing content. That is not safe.
@jeneias (608)
• United States
25 Mar 09
It's WIKIpedia, lol. Anyway, I've know about it for a while. It's very useful for research, or just things your curious about. I use it pretty much everyday and it answers just about all the questions I can think of.
@amitnaik (471)
• India
30 Mar 09
actually ,i didnt come across a person who is unaware of wikipedia. i think everybody knows about it.