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HISTORY OF WIKIPEDIA
•Wikipedia is an offshoot of Nupedia which
is now an abandoned project.

• Wikipedia was publicly launched on

January 15,2001 on domain
www.wikipedia.com
by Wikimedia Foundation in English.

•Later it was changed to

www.wikipedia.org

• In May 2001 it was launched in other

languages as well.

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 Wikipedia is a new Version of
Nupedia that enables modifications
in Existing Articles.

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FEATURES
•Wikipedia has a large contributor base.

•Available in around 253 different languages

making it global.

•It is possible to acquire Knowledge as well as

share knowledge.

•It is open to editor from diverse backgrounds for

adding their own articles.

•It is possible to edit existing articles in case of

factual errors or other flaws.

•Wikipedia has numerous editors to monitor

recent changes to avoid any misleading
information.
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 STATISTICS
•Number of articles added on
month-year basis
Month - Year Japanese French Italian

Jan-2008 358 451 495

Dec - 2007 356 423 391

Nov - 2007 390 436 436

Oct - 2007 372 413 387

Sept - 2007 377 463 394

Aug - 2007 351 520 453

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 FIVE PILLARS
WIKIPEDIA IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA.

WIKIPEDIA HAS A NEUTRAL POINT OF VIEW.

WIKIPEDIA IS A FREE CONTENT.

WIKIPEDIA HAS A CODE OF

CONDUCT.

WIKIPEDIA DOES NOT HAVE FIRM RULES.

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Editing any Existing Article on

www.wikipedia.org

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Data EDITED!

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 DIS ADVANTAGES
Anyone can add any kind of nonsense or accidental
•ACCURACY misinformation to existing articles which may
take years or months to detect or remove.

Anyone can delete huge amount of text from

articles or the complete article itself ,ruining lots
•VANDALISM
of work known as “BLANKING”,referred to as
vandalism.

It can run so slowly that it becomes unusable

• USABILITY for editing or consultation.
ISSUES
It contains many articles on irrelevant topics such
• NET LEVEL as Toilets in Japan, teh(Misspelling of “The”).
ISSUES

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 SUMMARY
•Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia
project operated by the non -profit Wikimedia Foundation.

• It is the largest, fastest-growing and most popular general

reference work currently available on the internet.

• Wikipedia has over 10 million articles in 253 languages.

• Wikipedia's articles have been written collaboratively by

volunteers around the world.

• It is possible to upload own articles and edit existing ones.

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THANK
YOU
Presented By:
•Deepika Goel
•Shubhangi Agarwal
•Shilpi Kumari
•Neha Gupta
•Radha Rani
•Pragya Pandey

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