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|Wikipedia |
|[pic] |
|[pic] |
|The logo of Wikipedia, a globe featuring glyphs from several writing systems |
|[pic] |
|Screenshot of Wikipedia 's multilingual portal. |
|Web address |http://www.wikipedia.org |
|Slogan |The Free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit |
|Commercial? |No |
|Type of site |Internet encyclopedia |
|Registration |Optional, but is required for certain tasks|
| |such as editing protected pages, creating |
| |pages in English Wikipedia and uploading |
| |files |
|Availablelanguage(s) |276 active editions (286 in total) |
|Users |Over 77,000 active editors[1] |
|Content license |Creative Commons Attribution / |
| |Share-Alike 3.0 (most text also |
| |dual-licensed under GFDL) |
| |Media licensing varies |
|Owner |Wikimedia Foundation (non-profit) |
|Created by |Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger[2] |
|Launched |January 15, 2001 |
|Alexa rank |[pic] 7 (June 2013)[3]



Citations: in Wikipedia". First Monday 12 (8). doi:10.5210/fm.v12i8.1997. Retrieved February 22, 2008. ▪ Pfeil, Ulrike; Panayiotis Zaphiris and Chee Siang Ang (2006). "Cultural Differences in Collaborative Authoring of Wikipedia". Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12 (1): 88. doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00316.x. Retrieved December 26, 2008. ▪ Reagle, Joseph (2007). "Do as I Do: Authorial Leadership in Wikipedia". WikiSym  '07: Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Wikis. Montreal, Canada: ACM. Retrieved December 26, 2008. ▪ Rosenzweig, Roy. Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past. (Originally published in The Journal of American History 93.1 (June 2006): 117–46.) ▪ Wilkinson, Dennis M.; Bernardo A ▪ Aaron Halfaker, R. Stuart Geiger, Jonathan T. Morgan, John Riedl (2012). "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community". American Behavioral Scientist 57 (5): 664.doi:10.1177/0002764212469365. Retrieved August 30, 2012. ▪ Ayers, Phoebe; Matthews, Charles; Yates, Ben (September 2008). How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It. San Francisco: No Starch Press. ISBN 978-1-59327-176-3. ▪ Broughton, John (2008). Wikipedia – The Missing Manual. O 'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-51516-2. (See book review by Baker, as listed hereafter.) ▪ Broughton, John (2008). Wikipedia Reader 's Guide ▪ Dalby, Andrew (2009). The World and Wikipedia: How We are Editing Reality. Siduri. ISBN 978-0-9562052-0-9. ▪ Keen, Andrew (2007). The Cult of the Amateur. Doubleday/Currency. ISBN 978-0-385-52080-5. (Substantial criticisms of Wikipedia and other web 2.0 projects.) ▪ Listen to: ▪ Keen, Andrew (June 16, 2007). "Does the Internet Undermine Culture?". National Public Radio, USA. The NPR interview with A. Keen, Weekend Edition Saturday, June 16, 2007. ▪ Lih, Andrew (2009). The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World 's Greatest Encyclopedia. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-1-4013-0371-6. ▪ O 'Sullivan, Dan (September 24, 2009). Wikipedia: a new community of practice?. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-7433-7. ▪ Reagle, Joseph Michael Jr. (2010). Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: the MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01447-2. Book reviews and other articles ▪ Baker, Nicholson. "The Charms of Wikipedia". The New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008 ▪ Crovitz, L. Gordon. "Wikipedia 's Old-Fashioned Revolution: The online encyclopedia is fast becoming the best." (Originally published in Wall Street Journal online – April 6, 2009.) Learning resources See also: List of films about Wikipedia ▪ Balke, Jeff (2008-03). "For Music Fans: Wikipedia; MySpace". Houston Chronicle (blog) ▪ Dee, Jonathan (July 1, 2007). "All the News That 's Fit to Print Out". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved February 22, 2008. ▪ Giles, Jim (September 20, 2007). "Wikipedia 2.0 – Now with Added Trust". New Scientist. Retrieved January 14, 2008. ▪ Miliard, Mike (December 2, 2007). "Wikipedia Rules". The Phoenix. Retrieved February 22, 2008. ▪ Poe, Marshall (2006-09). "The Hive". The Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved March 22, 2008. ▪ Rosenwald, Michael S. (October 23, 2009). "Gatekeeper of D.C. 's entry: Road to city 's Wikipedia page goes through a DuPont Circle bedroom". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 22, 2009. ▪ Runciman, David (May 28, 2009). "Like Boiling a Frog". London Review of Books. Retrieved June 3, 2009. ▪ Taylor, Chris (May 29, 2005). "It 's a Wiki, Wiki World". Time. Retrieved February 22, 2008.

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