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Evaluation of Encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. It contains over 4.4 million articles in English and is available in 287 languages. Wikipedia uses a wiki format which allows for easy collaboration, with thousands of changes made per hour. It has an open license and unlimited information due to terabytes of storage space.

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Evaluation of Encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. It contains over 4.4 million articles in English and is available in 287 languages. Wikipedia uses a wiki format which allows for easy collaboration, with thousands of changes made per hour. It has an open license and unlimited information due to terabytes of storage space.

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An Evaluation
by Katrina Ocampo

The FREE Encyclopedia that anyone can edit!


Information and Reference Services I

Prof. Juan C. Buenrostro, Jr.

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a globe featuring glyphs from several writing systems

Wikipedia is a free multi-lingual edited encyclopedia, written collaboratively by the people who use it. It is a special type of website designed to make collaboration easy, called a wiki. Many people are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes per hour.

Authority

Owned by Wikimedia Foundation Created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger

Date
January 15, 2001; 13 years ago up to present

Arrangement

Articles in Wikipedia are loosely organized according to their development status and subject matter.

Format
Open content Digital encyclopedia Online access One Column with Navigation Interface at left side and Information Box at right side.

Inclusiveness
Unlimited information since it has terabytes of disk space. It can have far more topics than can be covered by any printed encyclopedia.

The English Wikipedia has over 4.4 million articles

Treatment
General

Special Features
interact and reach consensus Defines user activity

Search Box

Navigation Interface

current events

the most developed articles may be nominated

Visual Aids

Information Box

Links to related and additional information

Table of Contents

Simplified Editing Interface open to a large contributor base (* semi-protection is sometimes necessary to prevent vandalism to popular pages.)

Multilingual
There are currently 287 language editions

Open License

Anyone can reuse or re-distribute it at no charge. The content can be published in many forms both online and offiline.

FREE!

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