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{{Infobox Website
| name = [[Image:Wikipedia-favicon.png|16px|favicon of Wikipedia]] Wikipedia
| name = [[Image:Wikipedia-favicon.png|16px|favicon of Wikipedia]] Wikipedia
| registration = Optional
| registration = Optional
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| author = [[Larry Sanger]] and [[Jimmy Wales]]
| author = [[Larry Sanger]] and to a lesser degree [[Jimmy Wales]]
}}
}}
'''Wikipedia''' is a [[multilingual]], [[World Wide Web|Web]]-based [[free content]] [[encyclopedia]] project. The name ''Wikipedia'' is a [[Blend (linguistics)|blend]] of the words ''[[wiki]]'' and ''encyclopedia''. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by [[volunteer]]s, allowing most articles to be changed by almost anyone with access to the website. Wikipedia's main [[Server (computing)|servers]] are in [[Tampa, Florida]], with additional servers in [[Amsterdam]] and [[Seoul]].
'''Wikipedia''' is a [[multilingual]], [[World Wide Web|Web]]-based [[free content]] [[encyclopedia]]-like project. The name ''Wikipedia'' is a [[Blend (linguistics)|blend]] of the words ''[[wiki]]'' and ''encyclopedia''. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by [[volunteer]]s, allowing most articles to be changed by almost anyone with access to the website. Wikipedia's main [[Server (computing)|servers]] are in [[Tampa, Florida]], with additional servers in [[Amsterdam]] and [[Seoul]].
Most people who edit Wikipedia believe that they are improving it for posterity and humanity's sake. They have been tricked by the seductive scam of Wikipedia. In reality, Wikipedia is a deliberately ''verkakte'' architecture for knowledge, and the [[Directory:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]] knows it. But they perpetuate this architecture because they know it is an addictive one to weak-minded individuals who think they are "helping" the world by staying on top of the bullshit, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The Philippines Court of Appeals has [http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20100828-289290/Solgen-loses-case-for-relying-on-Wikipedia-as-an-authority ruled] that Wikipedia "is certainly unacceptable evidence, nothing short of a mere allegation totally unsupported by authority."
== General Info ==
== General Info ==
The English section of Wikipedia has over 2 million articles and is growing fast. It is edited by volunteers in wiki fashion, meaning articles are subject to change by nearly anyone. [7] Wikipedia is the most popular reference site on the internet, receiving tens of millions hits per day. [7] Debates about the merits of articles often drag on for weeks, draining energy and taking up far more space than the entries themselves. Such deliberations involve volleys of arcane internal acronyms and references to obscure policies and guidelines, such as WP:APT ("Avoid Peacock Terms"--terms that merely promote the subject, without giving real information) and WP:MOSMAC (a set of guidelines for "Wikipedia articles discussing the Republic of Macedonia and the Province of Macedonia, Greece"). [10] As things stand, decisions whether to keep or delete articles are made after deliberations by Wikipedia's most ardent editors and administrators (the 1,000 or so most active Wikipedia contributors). [10]
The English section of Wikipedia has over 2 million articles and is growing fast. It is edited by volunteers in wiki fashion, meaning articles are subject to change by nearly anyone. [7] Wikipedia is the most popular reference site on the internet, receiving tens of millions hits per day. [7] Debates about the merits of articles often drag on for weeks, draining energy and taking up far more space than the entries themselves. Such deliberations involve volleys of arcane internal acronyms and references to obscure policies and guidelines, such as WP:APT ("Avoid Peacock Terms"--terms that merely promote the subject, without giving real information) and WP:MOSMAC (a set of guidelines for "Wikipedia articles discussing the Republic of Macedonia and the Province of Macedonia, Greece"). [10] As things stand, decisions whether to keep or delete articles are made after deliberations by Wikipedia's most ardent editors and administrators (the 1,000 or so most active Wikipedia contributors). [10]
== In-Depth ==
== In-Depth ==
A journalist used Wikipedia as a primary source, added something incorrect to an article. Now the same Wikipedia page is using that article as its primary source, which in the view of Wikipedia makes the incorrect fact true. [4]
A journalist used Wikipedia as a primary source, added something incorrect to an article. Now the same Wikipedia page is using that article as its primary source, which in the view of Wikipedia makes the incorrect fact true. [4]
== Selected Sources ==
== Selected Sources ==
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAHfaJ3-SnM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAHfaJ3-SnM
== See also ==
* [[Wikipedia]]
* [[Criticism of Jimmy Wales|Jimmy Wales]]
* [[Directory:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]]
* [[Nationalistic Editing on Wikipedia]]
* [[Directory:Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia| Wikipedia's bias towards Dictator Josip Broz Tito and Communist Yugoslavia]]
==External Links==
[http://wikipedia-watch.org Why not to trust wikipedia, follow all the links wikipedia watch analysis]
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[[Category:Wikipedia]] [[Category:MediaWiki]]
