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Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
2001 - updated daily
http://www.wikipedia.com
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Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia is an unusual and aptly named reference resource. This open-content encyclopedia allows for general public authorship and editing of any of its articles, and its text may be freely copied and distributed. A collaborative project, started in January 2001, it embodies some of the brightest promises of the Web - collective intellectual enterprise, informed consensus, unrestricted access to knowledge, and the free sharing of information and software - while challenging commonly-held notions of authorship and editorial control.
The goal of the Wikipedia project is to create a truly free universal encyclopedia. "Wiki" is a term used to identify both a type of hypertext document and the software used to create it. Wiki pages can be...