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15 Interesting Facts about Wikipedia ウィ WC Ω Wikipedia is quite possibly the most ambitious internet venture ever. An internet encyclopedia constantly updated by an anonymous crowd of users; over the years it's gone from internet inside joke to invaluable resource for trusted information. Most of the time, anyway. Here are 15 things you might not know about Wikipedia. 維 The name is a combination of the words "wiki," meaning shared website, and "pedia," which is a shortened form of encyclopedia. 2 3 7 89 10 Wikipedia was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. I- --- -- - Languages currently supported: 260 Sex is one of the most popular Wikipedia articles in every lan- Oni! guage except French and Spanish. Wikipedia generates approximately 684 million page views each year. The English language Wikipedia has more than 3 million articles. Han! Bad weather leads to more Wikipedia updates. That's why the Dutch Wikipedia has more pages than Spain's Wikipedia. German – 1.08 million We still won the World Cap.. French - 958,000 Damn it. Italian – 697,000 Spanish – 608,000 Members of the The Ansient Secroo We aht Less! CLICK MERE! Wikipedia community are referred to as Wikipedians. But anybody can edit articles on Wikipedia. Wikipedia contains no ads. There is no censorship on Wikipedia, but articles must meet certain guidelines: Wikipedia's mission is to make all of the information in the world available in every language. Encyclopedic Neutral Verifiable Who edits Wikipedia pages? 73% edit because 69% edit to 19% hold Masters they like the idea of sharing knowledge 4.4% are PhDs 13% are women fix errors degrees A sampling of Wikipedia articles in August, 2002 showed only 0.2% were the victims of vandalization. By May, 2009 that number had increased to 7.7% Just 31% of Wikipedia readers are women. A 2008 study compared the accuracy of Wikipedia articles vs. similar articles in Encyclopedia Britannica, The Dictionary of American History, and American National Biography Online. Wikipedia – 80% accurate Others - 95 to 96% accurate В- A www.OnlineMBA.com Sources: http://webupon.com/web-talk/10-unique-and-interesting-facts-about-wikipedia/ http://apemag.com/five-weird-facts-about-wikipedia.htm http://www.blognosh.com/2008/12/25-things-you-should-know-about-wikipedia/ http://www.lockergnome.com/knight17/2007/09/20/wikipedia-facts/ http://gorumors.com/crunchies/interesting-facts-about-wikipedia-contributors/ http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=12073&pn=1 http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Vandalism_statistics http://www.mendeley.com/research/comparison-of-itwikipediait-and-other-encyclopedias-for- accuracy-breadth-and-depth-in-historical-articles/ g Encyclopedi 15 Interesting Facts about Wikipedia ウィ WC Ω Wikipedia is quite possibly the most ambitious internet venture ever. An internet encyclopedia constantly updated by an anonymous crowd of users; over the years it's gone from internet inside joke to invaluable resource for trusted information. Most of the time, anyway. Here are 15 things you might not know about Wikipedia. 維 The name is a combination of the words "wiki," meaning shared website, and "pedia," which is a shortened form of encyclopedia. 2 3 7 89 10 Wikipedia was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. I- --- -- - Languages currently supported: 260 Sex is one of the most popular Wikipedia articles in every lan- Oni! guage except French and Spanish. Wikipedia generates approximately 684 million page views each year. The English language Wikipedia has more than 3 million articles. Han! Bad weather leads to more Wikipedia updates. That's why the Dutch Wikipedia has more pages than Spain's Wikipedia. German – 1.08 million We still won the World Cap.. French - 958,000 Damn it. Italian – 697,000 Spanish – 608,000 Members of the The Ansient Secroo We aht Less! CLICK MERE! Wikipedia community are referred to as Wikipedians. But anybody can edit articles on Wikipedia. Wikipedia contains no ads. There is no censorship on Wikipedia, but articles must meet certain guidelines: Wikipedia's mission is to make all of the information in the world available in every language. Encyclopedic Neutral Verifiable Who edits Wikipedia pages? 73% edit because 69% edit to 19% hold Masters they like the idea of sharing knowledge 4.4% are PhDs 13% are women fix errors degrees A sampling of Wikipedia articles in August, 2002 showed only 0.2% were the victims of vandalization. By May, 2009 that number had increased to 7.7% Just 31% of Wikipedia readers are women. A 2008 study compared the accuracy of Wikipedia articles vs. similar articles in Encyclopedia Britannica, The Dictionary of American History, and American National Biography Online. Wikipedia – 80% accurate Others - 95 to 96% accurate В- A www.OnlineMBA.com Sources: http://webupon.com/web-talk/10-unique-and-interesting-facts-about-wikipedia/ http://apemag.com/five-weird-facts-about-wikipedia.htm http://www.blognosh.com/2008/12/25-things-you-should-know-about-wikipedia/ http://www.lockergnome.com/knight17/2007/09/20/wikipedia-facts/ http://gorumors.com/crunchies/interesting-facts-about-wikipedia-contributors/ http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=12073&pn=1 http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Vandalism_statistics http://www.mendeley.com/research/comparison-of-itwikipediait-and-other-encyclopedias-for- accuracy-breadth-and-depth-in-historical-articles/ g Encyclopedi 15 Interesting Facts about Wikipedia ウィ WC Ω Wikipedia is quite possibly the most ambitious internet venture ever. An internet encyclopedia constantly updated by an anonymous crowd of users; over the years it's gone from internet inside joke to invaluable resource for trusted information. Most of the time, anyway. Here are 15 things you might not know about Wikipedia. 維 The name is a combination of the words "wiki," meaning shared website, and "pedia," which is a shortened form of encyclopedia. 2 3 7 89 10 Wikipedia was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. I- --- -- - Languages currently supported: 260 Sex is one of the most popular Wikipedia articles in every lan- Oni! guage except French and Spanish. Wikipedia generates approximately 684 million page views each year. The English language Wikipedia has more than 3 million articles. Han! Bad weather leads to more Wikipedia updates. That's why the Dutch Wikipedia has more pages than Spain's Wikipedia. German – 1.08 million We still won the World Cap.. French - 958,000 Damn it. Italian – 697,000 Spanish – 608,000 Members of the The Ansient Secroo We aht Less! CLICK MERE! Wikipedia community are referred to as Wikipedians. But anybody can edit articles on Wikipedia. Wikipedia contains no ads. There is no censorship on Wikipedia, but articles must meet certain guidelines: Wikipedia's mission is to make all of the information in the world available in every language. Encyclopedic Neutral Verifiable Who edits Wikipedia pages? 73% edit because 69% edit to 19% hold Masters they like the idea of sharing knowledge 4.4% are PhDs 13% are women fix errors degrees A sampling of Wikipedia articles in August, 2002 showed only 0.2% were the victims of vandalization. By May, 2009 that number had increased to 7.7% Just 31% of Wikipedia readers are women. A 2008 study compared the accuracy of Wikipedia articles vs. similar articles in Encyclopedia Britannica, The Dictionary of American History, and American National Biography Online. Wikipedia – 80% accurate Others - 95 to 96% accurate В- A www.OnlineMBA.com Sources: http://webupon.com/web-talk/10-unique-and-interesting-facts-about-wikipedia/ http://apemag.com/five-weird-facts-about-wikipedia.htm http://www.blognosh.com/2008/12/25-things-you-should-know-about-wikipedia/ http://www.lockergnome.com/knight17/2007/09/20/wikipedia-facts/ http://gorumors.com/crunchies/interesting-facts-about-wikipedia-contributors/ http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=12073&pn=1 http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: Vandalism_statistics http://www.mendeley.com/research/comparison-of-itwikipediait-and-other-encyclopedias-for- accuracy-breadth-and-depth-in-historical-articles/ g Encyclopedi