Wikipedia: 2 Million Articles
Wikipedia is a great place to start when you are wanting information about almost anything. The english version recently reached the two million article milestone – which prompted me to make some mention of the site for those that aren’t already familiar.
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia offered in over 250 languages where the content and editing is contributed and maintained by the user community. It is one of the first community based online projects and was the model for many current community based sites such as YouTube, Digg and MySpace.
If you are going to look something up online, Wikipedia is the place to start. It will likely have the information you are looking for and can point you, via references, to other locations with more detailed information.
For more specific information about Wikipedia … check out Wikipedia. Feel free to sign up and contribute! You can even join the official grammar police and go through the articles fixing all those wrong uses of “it’s”.
For other projects such as this, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, and others, check out Wikimedia – the non-profit founding organization of Wikipedia.
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I’ve recently come to depend heavily on this website. It’s often where I go if I need anything else other than a basic definition (www.dictionary.com) or synonym. It’s also handy for settling disagreements on trivia. Recently, I used it to determine whether mayonnaise was a part of the dairy family.