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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. Wikipedia (pronounced /ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdi.ə/ WI-ki-PEE-dee-ə) is a free, web-based, collaborative, 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 14 million articles (3.1 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. It was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Critics of Wikipedia accuse it of systemic bias and inconsistencies (including undue weight given to popular culture), and allege that it favors consensus over credentials in its editorial process. Its reliability and accuracy are also targeted. Other criticisms center on its susceptibility to vandalism and the addition of spurious or unverified information, though scholarly work suggests that vandalism is generally short-lived, and an investigation in Nature found that the material they compared came close to the level of accuracy of Encyclopædia Britannica and had a similar rate of "serious errors". Wikipedia's departure from the expert-driven style of the encyclopedia building mode and the large presence of unacademic contents have been noted several times. 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 several examples of Web 2.0 services, along with YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook. Some noted the importance of Wikipedia not only as an encyclopedic reference but also as a frequently updated news resource because of how quickly articles about recent events appear. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Is Wikipedia a reliable source for studying Macroeconomics and other branches of Economy? Q. I'm in a college, and i find many things i learn from books very hard to understand. That said, i regularly endeavor to find other explanations online. I know there are numerous sites offering a myriad of information about economy, but none are well systematized as wikipedia. If you don't think wiki is a reliable source for economic studies, could you point out to any other (well systematized) web sites that i could use? Thanks very much. Asked by sonjalisovac - Fri Dec 25 02:26:27 2009 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments A. One of my lecturers would frown at this :) Wikipedia is pot luck since it can be edited by anyone. Generally I find the information to almost always be mostly correct. However it should only be used as a quick refresh for a previously studied topic. When you study economic literature you not only get accurate information/data/theories etc... most importantly you learn other things as well that you never set out to learn. This helps create a broad spectrum of knowledge, not only confined to study subjects. This is killer knowledge in exams. Answered by ---------- - Fri Dec 25 02:38:19 2009 How to print Wikipedia articles that have math notations so article is clearly readable? Q. I noticed a while back that Wikipedia must have changed its interface. Now, I can't print clearly any article with math notations. The equations and other math symbols get completely distorted in a slanted fashion. The article becomes so unclear as to be unreadable. If you want to learn about math, but you can't clearly read the formulas you are stuck. Do you know any way to fix this problem? Asked by Gaetan - Wed Apr 9 11:52:07 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. Using an account (not an anonymous IP), click on Preferences at the top. Click on the Math tab. There are many ways Wikipedia represents math. Try different methods of representing math to see if any work better for your specific application. For me, TeX works best to cut and paste into OpenOffice. Answered by kainaw - Wed Apr 9 12:19:17 2008 How do you reply to a talk message on Wikipedia?
Q. I received a new message on my Wikipedia talk page and I don't know how to reply to it. Step by step instructions would be great help. Thanks! Asked by Licoricekins - Tue Nov 18 00:26:02 2008 - - 0 Answers - 0 Comments A. Edit the section of your talk page which contains the message. Reply there if you wish. Copy the message and any reply; go to the other user's talk page and at the bottom of the page paste the message and any response. Best to have have your response on both talk pages. On the comment line use whatever title the other person used for the section. Some responses may be missed by the other user if you respond only on your own talk page. If you respond on the other's talk page without copying the message, sometimes your response doesn't make sense, at least to others. Answered by Fred Bauder - Tue Nov 18 03:29:57 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Wikipedia"  news.google.com Afterdawn.com Wikimedia, the company behind Wikipedia has said this week that they have installed a new server, one that should allow for the "huge influx" of video that ... and more » news.google.com Towerlight He uses Wikipedia to research history lectures he gives part time. All this makes me wonder, however, when we have children and grandchildren, ... and more » news.google.com CNET It's one of the most high-profile hits for Wikia, the for-profit company founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales. And it's true, the format works quite well for ... and more » From Google News Search: "Wikipedia"  pcproblog.de 180px x 180px | 8.90kB [source page] Wikipedia founded by 1 in Jan 2001 and now has over six million articles in 250 languages Wikipedia was launched as the English Wikipedia on January 15 2001 as a complement to Nupedia an expert written and now defunct encyclopedia The project is now operated by the Wikimedia  da-imnetz.de 356px x 475px | 32.20kB [source page] Enzyklopaedie Wikipedia sollen kuenftig mit Videos angereichert werden koennen dpa Auf Wikipedia soll es in Zukunft auch Videos geben Die Betreiber  zientzia-astea.org 500px x 700px | 84.40kB [source page] editados ha caido un 25 en un ano Fuente 20 minutos En ella se relata que durante 2007 ha descendido el numero de nuevos colaboradores asi como el de articulos editados y borrados Esquema ilustrado de como el trabajo en la Wikipedia genera software y pautas sociales Jaume Ferrer y David Gomez Y es que siempre ha existido una dura pugna entre los usuarios que se From Yahoo Image Search: "Wikipedia"  towleroad.com Andy Towle Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:08:52 GM I read the comments about why...that his life wasn't notable and that . wikipedia. isn't a newspaper, but an encyclopaedia... fair enough - however there is an article about Kevin Federline for petes sake! What exactly is the criteria for ...  openeducationnews.org openedblogger hu, 04 Feb 2010 16:53:58 GM Karen Birchard at The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus is reporting that students at McGill University have formed a . Wikipedia. Club. From the post: This is the first time we've seen a campus club, said Jay Walsh, ...  boingboing.net Mark Frauenfelder hu, 06 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GM The work they're translating as ". wikipedia. " is jicong, apparently a type of fungus native to Yunnan province. Google translate gives "Zongyang", and there's no English . Wikipedia. page on it, so it's a mystery where that word was ... From Google Blog Search: "Wikipedia" Wikipedia is a Web-based, freely editable encyclopedia by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Sourced
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