Tag: ENCYCLOPEDIA

To most people, Wikipedia represents the ultimate in egalitarian encyclopedias. It's a place where any Internet user can go to add their own knowledge on virtually any subject in the world, regardless of individual expertise or background. But recent statistics show that, in spite of its intrinsic openness, Wikipedia's playing ground may not be as level as it seems -- especially when it comes ...

The times they are a-changing, and so, too, are the encyclopedias. It wasn't that long ago that an encyclopedia set cost thousands of dollars and was delivered by a truck -- a big truck. Then, when the multimedia computer found its way into the home, the encyclopedia morphed into (relatively) cheap discs full of information, often given away for free with a new computer. Microsoft's Encarta was ...

Wikipedia is the world's free and open encyclopedia. Anyone can go and read its articles, and, likewise, anyone can edit and write them. It contains content written in 253 different languages, including French, in which, at current count, there are 654,000 (plus) articles (compared to the 2.3 million articles in English). But more than a half million entries is not enough for French publishing ...

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 ...

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