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Revision as of 09:16, 7 February 2010
- See also changes related to Wikipedia, or pages that link to Wikipedia or to this page or whose text contains "Wikipedia".
Parent topics
- Encyclopedia [r]: A point of reference for structured knowledge. [e]
- Wiki [r]: A website that allows anyone (with registration required or not) to edit any page and to add new pages. [e]
Subtopics
- Inclusionism [r]: Belief that Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias should include a lot of material that others think should be deleted. [e]
- MediaWiki [r]: Wiki engine used to power Wikipedia and Citizendium; open source and written in PHP. [e]
- Wikiscanner [r]: A website created by Virgil Griffith to reveal conflict of interests when anonymous Wikipedia users edit an article. [e]
Founders
- Jimmy Wales [r]: (1966–) Internet entrepreneur and co-founder and head of Wikipedia, and co-founder of Wikia. [e]
- Larry Sanger [r]: American former philosophy professor who co-founded Wikipedia and founded Citizendium as an alternative (born 1968). [e]
- Citizendium [r]: On-line encyclopedia project: a wiki that allows registered, non-anonymous authors to edit any article, with the results approved by qualified editors. [e]
- Conservapedia [r]: Conservative wiki encyclopedia project founded by Andrew Schlafly as an alternative to Wikipedia and its "liberal bias", instead preferring conservative Christian and Republican Party viewpoints. [e]
- Nupedia [r]: Online encyclopedia founded in 2000 by Jimmy Wales and edited by Larry Sanger, considered the forerunner to Wikipedia. [e]
- Web 2.0 [r]: A description of the WWW that allows for greater social interaction between producers and consumers, authors and readers of content, to the point where such distinctions become meaningless. [e]