Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Internet has the potential to contain all of the knowledge inherent in the universe (Helping Friend Book reference) and The Wikipedia is on a quest to achieve that.
It is, as advertised, a free encyclopedia; containing intelligent definition and commentary about anything you might be interested in knowing more about, and it's built entirely upon user-submissions.
Be it Mexican Jumping Beans, why we shake hands or who was Nick Drake? - you can find out about it with a quick search.
While this information is readily available through the net, the Wikipedia strives to consolidate it in an easy to use and effective mechanism...and it works! I keep finding myself going back. It even has a Current Events page.
And in writing about it, I just found the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation: Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
Not a bad mission, and in fact, very Gamehendgian of them.
It is, as advertised, a free encyclopedia; containing intelligent definition and commentary about anything you might be interested in knowing more about, and it's built entirely upon user-submissions.
Be it Mexican Jumping Beans, why we shake hands or who was Nick Drake? - you can find out about it with a quick search.
While this information is readily available through the net, the Wikipedia strives to consolidate it in an easy to use and effective mechanism...and it works! I keep finding myself going back. It even has a Current Events page.
And in writing about it, I just found the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation: Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
Not a bad mission, and in fact, very Gamehendgian of them.
posted by Andy at
11:42 PM
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