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Happy Birthday Wikipedia

by Terrence O'Brien on January 17, 2008 at 08:34 AM

Happy Birthday Wikipedia
It's hard to believe but this week Wikipedia is only 7 years old. Just 2,561 days ago the free and editable by every one encyclopedia that has become a staple in so many people's lives didn't exist.

In that short time, Wikipedia has gone from interesting experiment, to a fairly reliable source on an absurdly broad range of subjects. As of this morning the English version counts over 2.1 million articles in it's database.

For all the controversy surrounding the reliability of the open-source knowledge encyclopedia, it has certainly proven its worth. Some studies have found Wikipedia to be just as reliable, or more reliable than many commercial, peer-reviewed tomes, and the site can be credited with helping to jump start the user-generated content revolution we all know as "Web 2.0".

While we would never say that Wikipedia is perfect, we sure are glad it's here.

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