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Operated By
Volunteers under Wikimedia Foundation.
Languages
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, etc.
License GNU Free Documentation License
Available on Internet, CDs, DVDs.
Sister Projects
Commons, Wikiquote, Wikisource, WikiNews, Meta-Wiki
http://www.wikipedia.org
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HISTORY OF WIKIPEDIA
•Wikipedia is an offshoot of Nupedia which is now an abandoned project.
• Wikipedia was publicly launched on January 15,2001 on domain www.wikipedia.comby Wikimedia Foundation in English.
•Later it was changed to www.wikipedia.org
• In May 2001 it was launched in other languages as well.
http://www.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia is a new Version of Nupedia that enables modifications in Existing Articles.
http://www.wikipedia.org
•Wikipedia has a large contributor base.
•Available in around 253 different languages making it global.
•It is possible to acquire Knowledge as well as share knowledge.
•It is open to editor from diverse backgrounds for adding their own articles.
•It is possible to edit existing articles in case of factual errors or other flaws.
•Wikipedia has numerous editors to monitor recent changes to avoid any misleading information.
FEATURES
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Month - Year
Japanese French Italian
Jan-2008 358 451 495
Dec - 2007 356 423 391
Nov - 2007 390 436 436
Oct - 2007 372 413 387
Sept - 2007 377 463 394
Aug - 2007 351 520 453
•Number of articles added on month-year basis
STATISTICS
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WIKIPEDIA IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA.
WIKIPEDIA HAS A NEUTRAL POINT OF VIEW.
WIKIPEDIA IS A FREE CONTENT.
WIKIPEDIA HAS A CODE OF CONDUCT.
WIKIPEDIA DOES NOT HAVE FIRM RULES.
FIVE PILLARS
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Editing any Existing Article on
www.wikipedia.org
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Data EDITED!
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•ACCURACY
Anyone can add any kind of nonsense or accidental misinformation to existing articles which may take years or months to detect or remove.
•VANDALISM
Anyone can delete huge amount of text from articles or the complete article itself ,ruining lots of work known as “BLANKING”,referred to as vandalism.
• USABILITY ISSUES
It can run so slowly that it becomes unusable for editing or consultation.
• NET LEVEL ISSUES
It contains many articles on irrelevant topics such as Toilets in Japan, teh(Misspelling of “The”).
DIS ADVANTAGES
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•Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the non -profit Wikimedia Foundation.
• It is the largest, fastest-growing and most popular general reference work currently available on the internet.
• Wikipedia has over 10 million articles in 253 languages.
• Wikipedia's articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world.
• It is possible to upload own articles and edit existing ones.
SUMMARY
http://www.wikipedia.org
THANK YOU Presented By:
•Deepika Goel•Shubhangi Agarwal•Shilpi Kumari•Neha Gupta•Radha Rani•Pragya Pandey
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