Wikipedia is a free web-based and collaborative multilingual encyclopedia, born in the project supported by the non-profit wikimedia foundation. Wikipedia has around 13 million articles, in this 2.9 million articles are in English. All the articles are written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of the articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and larry Sanger, now it is the worlds largest and most popular general reference work on the internet.
Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by the experts and reviewed under a formal process. This Nupedia was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, Inc, a web portal company. Its main figures were Jimmy Wales, Bomis CEO, and Larry Sanger,
editor-in-chief for Nupedia and later Wikipedia.
Wikipedia was believed to be the ultimate encyclopedia by the people and for the people. But eight years on, the site is plagued by many problems. Some of them are
# The number of articles added per month flattened at 60,000 in 2006.
# The number of edits made every month and the number of active editors both stopped growing, flattening out at around 5.5 million and 750,000 respectively.
# The foundation's finances is the major problem to Wikipedia.
One thing that every one of us must note is that, if the quality of Wikipedia could be degrade as there would be fewer editors checking for errors and the correcting the vandalism that accompanies user-gen websites.
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Friendship day 2009
Friendship is the only relationship, which can start with a single word "hi", but it never ends even after speaking millions of word. Sometimes in life we think we don't need anyone, but sometimes we don't have anyone when we are in need. so don't your best buddies go ever...
At the age of 10 years, you consider parents and friends as the best.,
at the age of 20 years, you feel your lover and friends as the best.,
at the age of 30 years, you feel your friends and wife are the best.,
at the age of 40, you feel your friends and kids as the best.,
at the age of 50, you feel your friends and relatives as the best.,
at the age of 60, and even till your death you will feel that your friend is the best.
people may leave you alone in any part of life, but friends will never leave you at all.
"FRIENDS FOREVER"......
