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Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark
Sir Homer writes "The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia. Started in January 2001, Wikipedia is currently both the world's largest encyclopedia and fastest-growing, 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 now ranks as one of the ten most popular reference sites on the Internet, according to Alexa.com. It is increasingly used as a resource by students, journalists, and anyone who needs a starting point for research. Wikipedia's rate of growth has continued to increase in recent months, and at its current pace Wikipedia will double in size again by next spring." stevejobsjr writes "Wikipedia needs our help. The Wikipedia project has no ads, and is run completely by volunteers. Still, it takes money to run such an amazing resource, and so they are running a fundraiser. The goal is to raise $50,000."
More articles for me to tamper with whilst imbibing brews.
But how much do we REALLY need to know about Klingon or memetics?
Uhh, don't look it up if you aren't interested?
Wikipedia is a great resource, and so far seems to do a pretty good job of keeping itself in check by the sheer volume of people checking each other's work.. but there is also the risk of important aspects being missed, or errors creeping in unchecked, as highlighted in a previous slashdot story.
Maybe you should give an actual example to give some substance to your concern.
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What retarded moderator modded this flamebait up? This is a pure troll that has been slapped down a thousand times! See this! This link should be informative, not that obvious troll!
yay!! a million entries of useless garbage! Wikipedia is stupid and I cant believe it gets the kind of attention it does...especially with an idiotic name like wikipedia. The information in it, is neither relevant, true or interesting.