Week 3      From Wiki To Wikipedia


Wiki is a website, where users can use or change the content independently using the tools provided by the site itself. Formatting text and inserting various objects into the text is done using wiki markup. In particular, Wikipedia and other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are built on the basis of these principles. The wiki allows all users to edit any page or create new pages on a wiki site using a regular web browser without any extensions.
A wiki maintains links between different pages by almost intuitively creating links to other pages and displaying whether the page exists or not.
The wiki is not a carefully crafted site for casual visitors. On the contrary, Wiki strives to engage visitors in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the look of the site.

Vandalism
Many wikis allow anyone to change their content. Just as the walls of buildings and fences are covered with obscene writing and graffiti, wikis can be spoiled by inappropriate content. But unlike walls and fences, wiki content is easy to revert to an earlier version: fixing is easier than messing up. If someone persistently and deliberately seeks to harm the users of the wiki site, he can get into block list.


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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a public multilingual universal Internet encyclopedia with free content, implemented on wiki principles. Its web address is wikipedia.org.
Unlike traditional encyclopedias such as "Encyclopedia Britannica", no Wikipedia article goes through a formal peer review process. Any Wikipedia article can be edited both from a member's account and even without registering on the project (with the exception of some pages subject to frequent vandalism, which are available for editing only to certain categories of members or, in extreme cases, only to Wikipedia administrators), and at the same time all changes made to the article are immediately available for viewing by any user. Therefore, Wikipedia "does not guarantee the truth" of its content.
Wikipedia was officially launched on January 15, 2001 as a single English-language section at www.wikipedia.com and was announced by Sanger on the "Nupedia" mailing list. The "neutral point of view" policy on Wikipedia was introduced in the early months and was similar to the early "open-mindedness" policy on Nupedia. In other respects, there were relatively few rules originally, and Wikipedia was run independently of Nupedia.

Wikipedia got its early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot posts, and search engine indexing. It had grown to approximately 20,000 articles and 18 language sections by the end of 2001. By the end of 2002, it had reached 26 language divisions, 46 by the end of 2003 and 161 by the last days of 2004 . Nupedia and Wikipedia coexisted until the first servers were permanently shut down in 2003 (the text of Nupedia was included in Wikipedia). English Wikipedia passed the 2 million article mark on September 9, 2007, making it the largest encyclopedia that has collected everything and eclipsed even the Yongle Encyclopaedia, which held the record for exactly 600 years. In November 2015, Wikipedia received the Erasmus Award. Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 6,250,888 articles and it averages 599 new articles per day.

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