...symbols, Egyptian pictographs and Cyrillic script. Why? For this show, I decided to talk about everything that ever happened. It's Wikipedia, you see. It's just perfect for stand-ups because we can inhale Wikipedia and chuck it out in stupid form. Have...
... Sure, sure - it’s pretty good. It’s got that whole ‘democratised, innovative, flawed yet genuinely revolutionary source of information’ thing going for it. But you know what it’s missing? Creationist rhetoric spouting forth like smelly Bible-piss, that’s...
...at any time before August 1, 2009, provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing. In other words, GFDL-licensed sites like Wikipedia have a special, nine-month window in which they can relicense their content to the Creative Commons...
...of those hyperlinks. But that's really my problem. The site itself is a tremendous academic aid, and it is time we allowed Wikipedia to come into its own. Brendan Carroll is a sophomore from New York, N.Y. He can be reached at btcarroll@princeton.edu....
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Wikipedia (pronunciation ) is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest, fastest-growing, and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Wikipedia is a project that attempts to summarize all human knowledge.
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