TITLE

Wikipedia Grows Up

AUTHOR(S)
Binkley, Peter
PUB. DATE
April 2006
SOURCE
Feliciter;2006, Vol. 52 Issue 2, p59
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
The article provides information on Wikipedia, a multilingual Internet encyclopedia. Wikipedia aims to be a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality. One of the disadvantages of Wikipedia that critics raised is its openness. However, Wikipedia has much to offer even in the realm of politics.
ACCESSION #
20673320

 

Related Articles

  • Online Encyclopedia Offers Open Editing. Arellana, Jonah // Rural Telecommunications;Jan/Feb2007, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p8 

    The article offers information about Wikipedia, a free Internet-based encyclopedia. Wikipedia uses a software that allows web site users to add, remove and change its contents. The software also allows users to update articles anytime they want to. Some critics doubt the reliability of Wikipedia...

  • The Calisphere Wikipedia Project: Lessons Learned. Zentall, Lena; Clountier, Camille // CSLA Journal;Fall2008, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p27 

    The article offers a comparative analysis between Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia, and the Calisphere K-12 Web site, in order to know which of these projects is preferrable. It is stated that the University of California's California Digital Library and the University of Washington have...

  • Exploring Georgia Byte by Byte: The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Stowell, Daniel W. // Georgia Historical Quarterly;Summer2005, Vol. 89 Issue 2, p242 

    Presents information on the online publication "New Georgia Encyclopedia," which offers topics related to Georgia, created and maintained by the Georgia Humanities Council. Features of the online publication; Methods of accessing information provided by the publication; Subject areas of the...

  • CatÃ¡logo de NEGOCIOS.  // Entrepreneur Mexico;jul2007, Vol. 15 Issue 7, p100 

    No abstract available.

  • Britannica pens up. Sarno, Tony // APC (Bauer Media Group);Jan2007, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p20 

    The article reports on the business plan of Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. to counter the community-based free Internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia by allowing its users to encyclopedia entries. As a result of this, anyone can submit materials just like on Wikipedia, but the materials will go through...

  • Wiki 2.0. Wales, Jimmy // Technology Review;Jul2008, Vol. 111 Issue 4, p13 

    The article discusses the various features of Wikipedia as well as the future of the online encyclopedia. According to Jimmy Wales, creator of Wikipedia and founder of Wikia Inc., his work was only a fraction of what is to be expected in the future as they are now making a comprehensive effort...

  • Internet Encyclopedias in Flux. Goldsborough, Reid // Tech Directions;Sep2009, Vol. 69 Issue 2, p12 

    This article discusses the growing popularity of Internet encyclopedias. It explores the move of some companies to launch online encyclopedias, including Microsoft that plans to launch the web version of its Encarta encyclopedia. It also highlights the growth of Wikipedia, a free web-based...

  • An Encyclopedia Of the People, By the People and For the People. Goldsborough, Reid // Community College Week;6/20/2005, Vol. 17 Issue 23, p30 

    Focuses on the growing popularity of the free collaborative Web-based encyclopedia called Wikipedia. Market share of Wikipedia in 2004; Distinctive features of Wikipedia; Limitations of Wikipedia.

  • Martindale on Books@Ovid.  // DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology;May2005, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p26 

    This article reports on the availability of Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference on the Books@Ovid platform of Ovid Technologies as of May 2005. Martindale is a resource that covers the properties, actions and uses of drugs, and medicines, with over 37,000 references and 130,000 preparations...

Share

Read the Article

Courtesy of VIRGINIA BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY AND SYSTEM

Sorry, but this item is not currently available from your library.

Try another library?
Sign out of this library

Other Topics
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/20673320/wikipedia-grows-up
connection.ebscohost.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-39
41833
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:FDVDMR7LY3NBZOZTMLDDK37ZARZYUPPR
<urn:uuid:0e731e7a-5e6c-45c8-aa50-0cec1821a10f>
2017-09-21T10:20:51Z
140.234.254.185
application/xhtml+xml
sha1:4X3CULV6AIIGHD73ERTJ2DP3KZ6H7G2W
<urn:uuid:7603302a-2500-4b8b-b5a6-182e7b41bb6f>
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/20673320/wikipedia-grows-up
response
<urn:uuid:6ee6384f-581a-4aa3-adfd-d2b0ffe2d391>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-148-78-95.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf