Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an online, collaborative, free encyclopedia based on wiki software. Currently it is one of the ten most popular websites.

Wikipedia was founded by Jimbo Wales and Larry Sanger, based on an idea Ben Kovitz? had at a taco stand. The forerunner of Wikipedia was Nupedia. Kovitz convinced Wales and Sanger that the slow-growing Nupedia would do better as a wiki.

In April 2009, Wikipedia struck a deal to provide content to Orange, a European telecom company. This was reported in the Wall Street Journal.

See Also

• Reasons Not to Contribute to Wikipedia
• Reasons Why Wikipedia is a Gigantic Threat to Civilization
• Wikipedia Resignation Statements
• Wikipedia Review
• WikiAbuse

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia
• The English Language Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Foundation

Critical Sites

• Wikipedia Review
• Wikipedia Watch
• Wikitruth

News Stories

• "Inside, Wikipedia is more like a sweatshop than Santa's workshop" at The Guardian
• "Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia" at The Register
• "Wikipedia under fire for ‘editorial elite’" at siliconrepublic.com
• Wikimedia Press Release about Orange
• Wikipedia Gets a Corporate Partner - WSJ