EXPERIENCES WITH WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia – a free, web-based, collaborative and multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its more than 20 million articles (over 5.53 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edicted by anyone with access to the site, and it has about 100,000 regularly active contries compendium of information, usually of a specific type, compiled in a book for ease of reference.That is, the information is intended to be quickly found when needed. Reference works are usually referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than read beginning to end.The writing style used in these works is informative;the authors avoid use of the first person, and emphasize fact Encyclopedia – type of reference work or compendium holding a comprehensive summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledde Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries, which are usually accessed alphabetically Encyclopedia entries are longer and more detailed than those in most dictionaries.