2007-01-31 00:17:46 · 5 answers · asked by Marci V 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Wikipedia is a large-scale, reference website which allows users from around the world to contribute to the content and accuracy of the information available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
2007-01-31 00:35:03 · answer #1 · answered by °ĠיִяĿỵ° 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is a multilingual, Web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers; with rare exceptions, its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Web site. The name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Its primary servers are in Tampa, Florida, with additional servers in Amsterdam and Seoul.
Wikipedia was launched as an English language project on January 15, 2001, as a complement to Nupedia, an expert-written and now defunct encyclopedia. Today, Wikipedia is operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which was created by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. Wikipedia has been described as "an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language".[1] According to Alexa Internet, Wikipedia has steadily risen in popularity since its inception[2] and currently ranks among the thirteen most visited websites worldwide.[3] It has spawned several sister projects,[4] and many of its pages have been mirrored or forked by other sites, such as Answers.com.
Wikipedia has over six million articles in many languages, including over 1.6 million in the English-language version and more than half a million in the German-language version. There are 250 language editions of Wikipedia, of which 22 have more than 50,000 articles.[5] The German-language edition has been distributed on DVD-ROM, and there have been proposals for an English DVD or print edition. Information can be found on Wikipedia by using search engines, article hyperlinks, or Wikipedia's topical organization of categories[6] and portals.[7]
2007-01-31 08:28:32 · answer #2 · answered by !!!!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia in which one can edit pages that are not locked. You can get to wikipeida at www.wikipedia.org and enter in what you are looking for.
2007-01-31 08:22:02 · answer #3 · answered by RobMorris9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over two million articles and still growing.
www.wikipedia.org
2007-01-31 08:28:54 · answer #4 · answered by Rajan P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wikipedia is the huge database of resoures which can any one can edit. there are lot of wiki site on net. the popular one is
http://en.wikipedia.org
2007-01-31 08:29:15 · answer #5 · answered by great_here 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋