emerging techmologies

Jake mcdonald

wed 11


Wikipedia is a well know site across the world it was founded on march 9 2000 by bomis inc.it was launched as an English language project in January 15 2001 as a non profit organization. many people know it as a free ,collaborative, multilingual internet encyclopedia web page where you can post your own web page on what ever subject you want while any one can change and or edit the information on your web page when ever. Wikipedia is a special place to help make calibration easier where almost every one can edit any thing on any web page to give a better understanding of the subject to the readers.

jimmy wales is an American internet entrepreneur who is known as the co founder and the promoter of wikipedia . jimmy and two partners founded bomis, the company would provide the initial funding for the peer reviewed program and around 2000-2003 the company became a success around the globe.

information about wikipedia
1)URL. wikipedia.org
2)SLOGAN. the free encyclopedia
3)TYPE OF SITE. internet encyclopedia
4)REGISTRATION. optional(only required for certain tasts such as editing and protecting pages,creating pages and uploading files)
5)AVAILABLE LANGUAGES. 282 total
6)OWNER. wikimedia foundation
7)CREATED BY. jimmy wales and Larry sanger
8)LAUNCHED. January 15 2001

'PROS AND CONS OF WIKIPEDIA'
wikipedia can be edited from just about anyone(pro and con)
people can fix your mistakes(pro)
people can make mistakes(cons)
most articles are wrong(cons)
amateur editors(cons)
nothing like any other encyclopedia sit(pro and con)
most articles are writin in first person , there opinion(con and pro)
some articles are reasonable(pro and con)

jimmy wales
birth date august 7 1966
place of birth Huntsville Alabama
best known for the founder and creator of wikipedia the largest non profit community edited encyclopedia on the web

Larry sanger
birth date born July 16 1968
place of birth Bellevue Washington,U.S
best known as the co-founder of wikipedia the largest non profit community edited encyclopedia on the web

since the creation of wikipedia it has be came one of the most popular web sites across the world , being ranked at 6 globally for the best encyclopedia online