I am excited……….. you will understand the
reason when you read the last line of
this post… !!
Life has moved on the fast lane and for modern day
youngsters – technology provides great help. For every doubt, they no longer
ask their Teachers or search their dictionaries – but mostly ‘google’ – make a
goggle search !
Equally popular is ‘Wikipedia’ – which provides great
information and has millions of articles…………
Wikipedia is a collaboratively
edited, multilingual, free Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages,
including over 4.3 million in the English Wikipedia, are written
collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can
be edited by anyone having access to the site.[
It is the largest and most popular general reference work
on the Internet, ranking seventh globally among all websites on Alexa as of
July 2013, and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide.
Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales
and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined the name Wikipedia, which is a portmanteau of
wiki (a type of collaborative website, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning
"quick")and encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is praised
as a news source due to articles related to breaking news often being rapidly
updated; the open nature of Wikipedia has led to various concerns, such as the
quality of writing, the amount of vandalism,and the accuracy of information.
Some articles contain unverified or inconsistent information. In a departure from the style of traditional
encyclopedias, Wikipedia is open to outside editing.
The information on Wikipedia and it being
the source for millions more article is no news at all……… today, was pleasantly
surprised to find that an article in blog was cited as reference in Wikipedia…
it is on Srilankan cricketer : Thisara Perera and here is a snapshot of Wikipedia
page of date. :
With regards – S. Sampathkumar
20th Sept. 2o13.
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