Happy Birthday Wikipedia!
Posted January 17th, 2008 by Scott
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information. – Michael Scott
This week one of the world’s most popular encyclopedias turned 7! It’s hard to believe that Wikipedia, which is often credited with jump starting the user-generated content revolution we all know as “Web 2.0,” went from a small experiment to one of the world’s most reliable resources covering a ridiculously wide array of subjects. As of January 14, 2008, the English Wikipedia had over 2,176,000 articles with over 946,000,000 words! That’s 371,271 new words added every day!
Now I wouldn’t recommend citing Wikipedia articles for your thesis or term papers, but if you wanted to find out who Chris Crocker is…… well that’s another story lol.
