Selling Wikipedia, Portal to Portal

More and more when we search the Web for facts or info
as part of our job or while blogging, we find that Google is directing
us to one of the most interesting and successful WIKI sites in existence;
Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia started in January 2001.

A Wiki is a special kind of web site which is available to be editied
by any visitor or reader who feels they have something to contrinbute
to the article or topic in question. Anyone visiting a Wiki page can
click on a link that says "edit text of this page" and change
the words or links by entering text in a box that opens up and clicking "save.".Despite
predictions of chaos, the system works remarkably well, with regular
readers quickly correcting
informaiton which is inaccurate or biased.

An article by Leslie Walker in the Washington
Post compares the Wikipedia
to the Encyclopedia Britanica. We got the link thanks to Jessica
the Cyber-Librarian.

The goals of the project are not  exactly modest. "It is our goal to
put
the
sum
of
all
human
knowledge
in
the
form
of
an
encyclopedia in the hands of every single person on the planet for free," according
to its creater, Jimmy Wales.

Wikipedia

Washington Post article