Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is a Web-based, freely editable encyclopedia by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

Sourced

• "[H]owever closely a Wikipedia article may at some point in its life attain to reliability, it is forever open to the uninformed or semiliterate meddler."
  • Critique given by former Encyclopædia Britannica editor Robert McHenry in an oft-cited 2004 piece The Faith-Based Encyclopedia.

• "Fuck them."
  • Stephen Colbert, March 1, 2006, in response to Arianna Huffington's claim that Wikipedia says that he merely "popularized" the term "truthiness".[1]

About Wikipedia

• "At last, an encyclopedia by potheads!" - Dave Attell
• "The real problem is not Wikipedia, but reporters who fail to check their facts." - Joseph Wilson
• "Wikipedia knows all, and what it doesn't know, you can tell it." - Shaye Horwitz
• "Possibly the greatest idea of the Computer Age" - BritishWebWorld magazine
• "Relevance is always in question, my young neophyte. Welcome to Wikipedia." - Sholom Keller
• "Wikipedia is not a created encyclopedia, but rather is creating an encyclopedia." - Josh Cogliati
• "The big secret of course is that Wikipedia is not really about an encyclopedia, it's just a big game of nomic." - Jimbo Wales
• "When the best sort of sysop has to break the law to do what everyone knows is right, there's something wrong with the law." - Jimbo Wales
• "We don't know how many unique users visit the site because we're lame and don't keep track of it - we don't sell advertising, so we don't have to." - Jimmy Wales
• "The extensive range of information makes it a must for any student" - Matthew Smollen

External links

• Wikipedia multi-lingual portal

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