Wikipedia is a multilingual, collaboratively operated online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone and that aims to provide free encyclopedic information to its readers. This site was initially created as a complement to the online encyclopedia, Nupedia but after a laborious year with just twelve articles the creator of the site Jimmy Wales, with the assistance of his Nupedia employee, Larry Sanger decided to use the wiki technology in converting and recreating Nupedia into what is the now famous website, Wikipedia.
Since the wiki technology was adapted for the site there exist a steady flow of articles being contributed to the site. With this technology it means that anyone and everyone can contribute and collaboratively give information in an encyclopedia article on any subject known and available on the site. Anyone can chose to edit the information posted on its articles but because of this wide open nature there are some people who would intentionally add nonsense instead of putting up facts and commit other acts of vandalism on the site that's why administrators are putting up precautions against this type to protect the project.
Originally the project started out in English on January 15, 2001 with just little articles but after introducing the wiki method on the site it has now covered a wide range of subjects and in approximately 250 different languages with the English Wikipedia containing at about 2.7 million articles as of January 27, 2009.
Wikipedia has become very strong among the search engines due to the very high page rank and that they deal with pure information that is not intended for internet marketing purposes. They have shied away from intense marketing and online advertising and have built a very well respected site for useful information. If you haven’t had a chance to browse it we recommend you spending some time. It is also a great place to look up obscure internet marketing terms like Web 2.0, and mashables and see the literal definitions to these terms.
Wikipedia wouldn't practically be what it is now today not for it's thousands of volunteer scholars, students, teachers, hobbyists and knowledgeable people from around the world, who are usually termed as Wikipedians. This Wikipedians are the ones who generally contribute ideas and articles to site and are basically committed to the mission of the project which is to provide a free online encyclopedia to everyone around the world. They are hardworking, knowledgeable and also there are self-titled people who spend many hours researching, writing and editing the articles. With this growing numbers of participants each day Wikipedia is at the moment ranked as the 7th most visited website around the world.
This site has become one of the most well known sites, who uses collaborative gathering of information to revolutionize and unite web users around the world. This site can be considered as an active online community together in the cause of educating people and of course to gather all the world's pertinent facts and document it all in one site. Wikipedia is being operated by it's parent company Wikimedia, a non-profit charitable organization, who also operates several wiki projects on the web.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
