2006-09-28 01:38:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2006-09-28 01:42:41 · answer #1 · answered by bigjerry61 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia is a Web-based free-content multilingual encyclopedia project. It exists as a wiki, a website that allows any visitor to freely edit its content.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by almost anyone with access to the website.
Wikipedia's main servers are in Tampa, Florida, the United States, with additional servers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Seoul, South Korea.
Wikipedia started as an English language project on January 15, 2001, as a complement to the expert-written and now defunct Nupedia, and is now operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
It was created by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales; Sanger resigned from both Nupedia and Wikipedia on March 1, 2002.
Wales has described Wikipedia as "an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language.
Currently Wikipedia has more than 5 million articles in many languages, including more than 1,400,000 in the English-language version.
There are 229 language editions of Wikipedia, sixteen of which have more than 50,000 articles each. The German-language edition has been distributed on DVD-ROM, and there have been proposals for an English DVD or print edition.
Since inception, Wikipedia has steadily risen in popularity, and has spawned several sister projects. According to Alexa, Wikipedia ranks among the top 20 most visited sites, and many of its pages have been mirrored or forked by other sites, such as Answers.com.
It is the best and coolest destination for knowing anything that comes into one's mind.
One can call it a Knowledge Repository.
2006-09-28 01:49:11 · answer #2 · answered by Pioneer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a free online encyclopedia that has information about almost any topic you can think of. it's very cool, but don't trust everything you read because a lot of the entries are written by fellow wikipedia fans.
2006-09-28 01:46:54 · answer #3 · answered by stitchfan85 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the best online encyclopedia u would have ever seen.
it offers free information on the wildest of topics u can think of.
better yet, u can actually donate ur own articles.
2006-09-28 01:49:34 · answer #4 · answered by dhruv 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A website dedicated to information on any topic, continually updated by its readers.
2006-09-28 01:40:45 · answer #5 · answered by stuntdouble_uk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a brilliant online encyclopaedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
2006-09-28 01:41:16 · answer #6 · answered by Carella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an online encyclopedia.
you can look up just about anything.
2006-09-28 01:45:26 · answer #7 · answered by april_hwth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋