Chekhov's Mistress
Over One Million Articles Served: Wikipedia
Of interest to bloggers, this is from the Wikipedia website:
The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Monday the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia, its project to create a free, open-content, online encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org ). Started in January 2001, Wikipedia is currently the world’s largest and fastest growing encyclopedia, with articles under active development in over 100 languages. Nearly 2,500 new articles are added to Wikipedia each day, along with ten times that number of updates to existing articles.
Wikipedia is created entirely by volunteers who contribute, update, and revise articles in a collaborative process. Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, said, “The idea of sharing knowledge is powerful.” The process is governed by Wikipedia’s official neutral point of view (NPOV) policy, which requires that contributors work to avoid bias in writing articles. Even articles covering controversial topics can be developed using this process. Contributors build upon each other’s changes and flawed edits are quickly repaired. “Everything is peer-reviewed in real time,” said Wales.
Wikipedia runs on a wiki software platform called MediaWiki, which allows anyone to edit a page at any time and have one’s changes visible instantly (wiki means “quick” in Hawaiian). Visitors can also examine older versions of pages to see how an article has developed.
I would think with the capacious expertise of the community of lit bloggers, that many would want to contribute to this lasting store of knowledge.
Read widely, think well, and write often.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: September 23, 2004
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