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exception of news websites), and I really think that it is a credit to everyone who works on it, and indeed to human nature itself! this may seem like a sweeping statement, but it is hard to believe that something so incredible could be produced entirely voluntarily by people in their spare time. and, at the same time, would-be spoilers are repelled; I have never seen an incorrect piece of information or any 'graffiti'. good show!
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folks should be busy brainstorming a survival strategy. Instead, the range of reaction has run in a comically limited range from denial to derision. Even
Britannica, with its prestigious reputation, needs to figure out how it will thrive in what will increasingly be a Knowledge (XXG) world. In the final analysis, Knowledge (XXG) is more than just the raising of a new barn. It's the tearing down of the old ones.
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the articles seemed a bit dated, and we came across many red links or blue links that led to single-sentence placeholders. But for the most part, the items were useful and thoughtful. And the typos and awkward constructions we found? As editors, we plan to return to those pages, on the subjects we care about, and tweak them a bit.
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Knowledge (XXG). This is one of the best things to ever happen to me. An infinite amount of knowledge all integrated into one website. I love this thing! You need to know about something? Just type it in. You need to know about something relating to it, just click on one of the links in its
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Are traditional encyclopedia publishers aware of
Knowledge (XXG)'s threat? Here's a clue: Try looking for the "Knowledge (XXG)" article in the online version of Britannica. You won't find it. Nor will you find it in any of the half a dozen or so mainstream encyclopedias currently on the market. These
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You can't do a Web search on any major topic without this wiki popping up near the top of the results page. Heavily linked, authoritative, and constantly updated, the world's largest interactive encyclopedia came into its own this year
Popular, yes. Accurate? Not necessarily. Because its entries can
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But an intriguing new subgenre of sites, called WikiWikiWebs, really are interactive: users can both read and write. The most ambitious Wiki project to date applies this governing principle to the encyclopedia, that
Enlightenment-era icon of human intelligence. With a total of 16,000 articles
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Knowledge (XXG) is to produce the best encyclopedia encapsulating the sum total of human knowledge. And a quick run through some of the articles shows that this community based approach can indeed work. The Knowledge (XXG), and hopefully other services similar to it,
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Wow. Just wow. As I cruised around the Pump, I noticed talks about how old people were. As a 16 year old, I'm supposed to be jaded on the world, but the fact that there are kids younger than myself gives me an unexplicable hope. Knowledge (XXG) has the greatest minds on the internet, and I look
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Knowledge (XXG) is a short-lived fad, maybe it'll get better, maybe it'll get worse, but I was surprised that nobody pointed this out: The Knowledge (XXG) is beautiful. It's an unexpected and unexplainable triumph of collective creativity and of order over entropy. I hope it lasts a long
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This may sound like a recipe for disaster, but the results are impressive. While many of the site's 130,000-plus articles are definitely works in progress, many are rich, concise, and polished. Surprisingly, our time spent on
Knowledge (XXG) turned up no junk entries and no defacements. A few of
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anyway, I'm sure plenty of people have said this before, but just thought I would congratulate everyone who works on here, and say hi. I'm jack by the way, and I live in north wales. I shall try to contibute as much as possible (so far all I have done is added a sentence about john peel going to
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Knowledge (XXG) perhaps one of the greatest testaments to the generosity on the web What makes the Knowledge (XXG) so compelling—and this article so hard to finish—is the way everything is so massively linked. You read one entry, and before you know it, you're reading up on Anne Boleyn or
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this project is fantastic! the number of articles and the amount of information in them is truly amazing, even articles on topics so obscure I thought there would be no chance they would exist. the band biographies, for example, seem to have more detailed information and useful links than any
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So is it to be trusted? Does it have the credibility of Britannica? Well, I have monitored over a decent period a number of entries on matters about which I know something and have found them almost invariably accurate. And I have watched some of them grow, becoming ever more elaborate and
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This page is intended for collecting quotations about Knowledge (XXG). Such quotations can be useful for press releases, discussions etc. Like any good marketing page, it should primarily list positive opinions, although criticism can of course be part of such opinions. Please do
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be edited by anyone, the Knowledge (XXG) can be the source of dubious or biased information. ith more than 800,000 articles in English and well over 1 million in 15 other languages, foolproof policing is well nigh impossible.
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I am a newcomer to wikipedia; although I have been aware of it and used it on occasion for quite a while, I have only recently realised the depth of this resource, and discovered the mechanics behind it.
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Dumping my life's accumulated factoids into Knowledge (XXG) seems like a fun thing to do, we'll see how it goes. Two weeks later, it seems more like being an ADD-afflicted magpie in a bottle cap factory!
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And there is the Knowledge (XXG), a community-written encyclopedia that has evolved over the years into one of the most reliably useful sources of information around, on or off-line.
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so I could provide an expert opinion on its suitability as the project's interface. Boy does it ever work. I've declared wiki wiki to be the killer app of the world wide web."
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