Help Wikipedia to Help Us
Wikipedia is a free web based encyclopedia. This project went public on Jaunuary 15, 2001. It currently has over 2,669,992 articles in English only, all of which are contributed by volunteers across the globe. Wikipedia is multilingual i.e., it supports many languages.
Wikipedia is one of the five most popular website on internet. Still Wikipedia asks for donations to support its activities. Why? Because Wikipedia is free from anything that annoys a visitor i.e. there is not even a single advertisement on this site. All information is provided without charging any money. So, it depends on support and donations.
Wikipedia is one of the five most popular website on internet. Still Wikipedia asks for donations to support its activities. Why? Because Wikipedia is free from anything that annoys a visitor i.e. there is not even a single advertisement on this site. All information is provided without charging any money. So, it depends on support and donations.
Contents on Wikipedia
Table of Contents
- Facts About Wikipedia
- Wikipedia News
- How and where to donate funds for Wikipedia?
- Recent Changes in Wikipedia
- How can we help Wikipedia?
- How much can we trust Wikipedia contents?
- Shop n Learn more about Wikipedia?
- Wikipedia in Online Discussions
- How to contribute on Wikipedia?
- Become a Wikipedia Editor.
- Wikipedia in Blogs
- Wikipedia Spreading Knowledge
- What is your opinion about Wikipedia?
Facts About Wikipedia
Learn some interesting things about Wiki.
1. Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.2. Wikipedia was founded as an offshoot of Nupedia, a now-abandoned project to produce a free encyclopedia.
3. Wikipedia is one of the largest reference website on internet. It is also one of the 5 most popular websites on internet.
4. Wikipedia had 684 million annual visitors in year 2008.
5. There are 75,000 active contributors on Wikipedia.
6. Wikipedia has over 2,669,992 articles in English only.
7. There is no specific qualification to contribute or write on Wikipedia i.e, anyone from any background, qualification or age can write or edit articles on Wikipedia with existing knowledge.
8. There are 1,500 people with special admin power to ensure guidelines and policies are followed across Wikipedia.
9. None of the articles on Wikipedia are ever complete but all contents are continuously evolving and improved with new information and additional knowledge.
10. Wikipedia currently supports articles in 265 languages.
11. Wikipedia has a total of 23 paid staff members.
12. Current Alexa traffic rank of Wikipedia is 8 (now its 6th), with 275 million monthly visitors and 451,138 sites linking in.
Wikipedia News
News items on Wikipedia
This is the latest news on Wikipedia floating across the internet.
- Scientists say IPCC should be overhauled or scrapped
- Rotating groups of four to eight lead authors could manage a Wikipedia-style process that would reflect diverse scientific opinion.
- WikiReader gets update with improvements in usability
- The device is a small handheld gadget that lets a user check out Wikipedia entries without an internet connection. Openmoko, the firm behind the gadget, ...
- Philosopher Left to Muse on Ridicule Over a Hoax
- In fact, the sham philosopher has never been a secret, and even has his own Wikipedia entry. In the uproar that followed over the rigors of his research, ...
- U.S. Pushes Iran for War?
- Here's how Wikipedia puts it: On August 1941, the crisis came to a head as the United States, which at the time supplied 80% of Japanese oil imports, ...
How and where to donate funds for Wikipedia?
Supporting Wikipedia with contributions.
There are many ways to donate for Wikipedia. One can contribute $30, $75, $100 or more online using Credit Card or Paypal.Other ways to donate including above are:
1. Credit Cards
2. Paypal
3. Check via regular mail (snail mail).
4. Stock donation
5. Direct deposit in Bank and
6. Moneybookers.
So, if you feel the importance of Wikipedia and want to help Wikipedia with donations, then this is the right time to do so, because tomorrow you may not be here to remember this.
Recent Changes in Wikipedia
Track Wikipedia Changes here
Wikipedia is constantly changing to adopt new online environment. This module is an effort to keep track of latest changes in Wikipedia.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byHow can we help Wikipedia?
Which is best way to help Wikipedia Donations or Article Contribution?
I think each one of us can do any of the two to help Wikipedia, some can help with contributing in writing or editing (without spamming) and others with donations.
What do you think which is the best way to help Wikipedia?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byContributing Articles.
Donating Money.
How much can we trust Wikipedia contents?
Is every article on Wikipedia reliable.
Wikipedia is a reliable online resource and we can trust the contents it has to offer but we must learn how to do research with Wikipedia as usually recently added articles are lower in quality then the older one. Learn more on reliability of Wikipedia.
How (Much) to Trust Wikipedia
Luca de Alfaro [Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz] Abstract: The Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia: anyone can contribute to its articles simply by clicking on an "edit'' button. The open nature of the Wikipedia has been key to its success, but has a flip side: if anyone can edit, how can readers know whether to trust its content? To help answer this question, we have developed a reputation system for Wikipedia authors, and a trust system for Wikipedia text. Authors gain reputation when their contributions are long-lived, and they lose reputation when their contributions are undone in short order. Each word in the Wikipedia is assigned a value of trust that depends on the reputation of its author, as well as on the reputation of the authors that subsequently revised the text where the word appears. To validate our algorithms, we show that reputation and trust have good predictive value: higher-reputation authors are more likely to give lasting contributions, and higher-trust text is less likely to be edited. The trust can be visualized via an intuitive coloring of the text background. The coloring provides an effective way of spotting attempts to tamper with Wikipedia information. A trust-colored version of the entire English Wikipedia can be browsed at http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/
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Shop n Learn more about Wikipedia?
Some useful resources available in market.
If you are interested in Wikipedia then this stuff is for you.
Wikipedia in Online Discussions
Blogs currently discussing Wikipedia.
How Wikipedia is currently discussed across the net.
- Technology & Marketing Law Blog: Catching Up With Wikipedia
- I recently posted the final published version of my article Wikipedia's Labor Squeeze and its Consequences. In the course of updating the draft, I reviewed the news coverage of Wikipedia from the second half of 2009, and I thought I ...
- » ICICI Bank India Wikipedia Jobs India Openings, Interviews ...
- ICICI Bank India Wikipedia. ICICI Bank (formerly Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India) is India's largest private sector bank by market capitalization and second largest overall in terms of assets. ...
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- Paul Geffen: Another round with Wikipedia
- At a recent lecture, someone mentioned that she had seen an article about herself on Wikipedia. That's a nice bit of "cred" - if you can get it. She brought it up on the screen and we saw a big "speedy delete" notice at the top of the ...
How to contribute on Wikipedia?
Guidelines for Beginners.
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is written by John Broughton for beginners. This is a step by step guide for new Wikipedia editors to help them in avoiding mistakes right from the beginning and overcome complexities of editing Wikipedia.
Become a Wikipedia Editor.
Editing Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an excellent place to share knowledge among global community. Those who wish to be a successful wikipedia editor must be comfortable with editing tools and procedures available at Wikipedia.All of us learn from our mistakes and this is also true about new wikipedia editors. People who try to contribute to wikipedia by sharing there knowledge as a Wikipedia editor often get frustrated with the editing procedures and tools.
Learning from mistakes is a good way to start but it takes a lot of time to learn.
A good solution to this problem is 'The Missing Manual' by John Broughton, which is specifically written for new wikipedia editors. This is a step by step guide which makes things easier for anyone who wish to contribute to Wikipedia as an Editor.
Wikipedia in Blogs
Discussion on Wikipedia on Internet
Wikipedia is a source of information for everyone, people use information from Wikipedia for both commercial and practical use. Wikipedia is a popular site among students, that is why so many blogs discuss Wikipedia.
- Gilbsy's Heartburn Remedies » Blog Archive » Laryngopharyngeal Reflux
- Unfortunately you have a conflict of interest, and your editing involves contributing to Wikipedia in order to promote livingwithreflux.org. Such a conflict is strongly discouraged. Your contributions to wikipedia under Tracey guilliattparks and IP84.159.81.236, .... In the process I found that it had been a habit I'd adopted shortly before of eating bran flakes as a late snack that was responsible for the trouble, and by ending this the problem was ended. ...
- The Fairy-Tale Cult of Wikipedia « HIV/AIDS Skepticism
- But ScienceApologist was so assiduous in his harassment of Eric Lerner over concepts about an ?Electric Universe?, leading even to Lerner being barred from contributing to Wikipedia on subjects on which he is expert, ... Printed encyclopedias carried a certain imprimatur because the publisher's reputation ? and therefore livelihood ? hinged on the validity of its entries, and often the individuals responsible for those entries were identified or identifiable. In Wikipedia ...
- William Connolley and Wikipedia: Turborevisionism « Watts Up With ...
- For example I think he's solely responsible for making it look like only Newsweek had a significant article on it, completely excluding the 1974 article in Time (cover page feature) or even mention of other articles except at the references at the bottom. .... I do believe we need to raise awareness regarding the conflict of interest, especially of people who seem to have a lot of people and help to work on making certain Wikipedia entries appear in a certain way. ...
- Sơn Trung Thư Trang: WIKIPEDIA * HỒ CHÍ MINH
- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. Semi-protected. For the city named after him, see Ho Chi Minh City. H? Chí Minh Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh at the independence day of Democratic Republic of Vietnam, ..... education and the arts" and that Ho Chi Minh "devoted his whole life to the national liberation of the Vietnamese people, contributing to the common struggle of peoples for peace, national independence, democracy and social progress."[27] ...
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- Comfortdoc Comfortdoc Dec 24, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
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