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Wikipedia aims to roll over Google

The online encyclopedia will use the power of the people to take on Google and Yahoo

ON the front of Jimmy Wales's black T-shirt is a fist holding what looks like a hand grenade, but which on closer inspection turns out to be a computer mouse.

The shirt was given to him by students in Budapest, where Wales was doing a talk about Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia he founded. "I like to wear it if I'm giving a corporate talk. It scares them a little," he said last week. "I like being disruptive. It's fun."

In six years, Wikipedia has emerged as one of the internet's biggest phenomena, altering the way people get information and students and schoolchildren do their homework. Whether Wikipedia is a good thing depends on whom you talk to.

Today Wikipedia contains 8.2m articles, in 253 languages,…

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