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In the wide world of the internet once every blue moon something turns up every so often that becomes the “in” thing. Quick examples of this are Youtube, Google, Myspace, Digitalspy. Overnight seemingly these things turn up, and before you know it everyone is using them. And for some people ... Read review

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Wikidly Useful

Advantages: Quite up to date on information
Disadvantages: The odd chance of vandalism

In the wide world of the internet once every blue moon something turns up every so often that becomes the “in” thing. Quick examples of this are Youtube, Google, Myspace, Digitalspy. Overnight seemingly these things turn up, and before you know it everyone is using them. And for some people these sites are the first and last place to look. Wikipedia has become one of these sites.

In 2001 Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger brought Wikipedia ...
...had for the internet meant that people were searching for information from the internet alone, rather than visiting libraries. This thirst for knowledge gave Wales and Sanger the idea for Wikipedia. Because in this big wide world information changes on a daily basis, Wikipedia was designed so that it could be updated at the drop of a hat; a voluntarily run website Wikipedia relies on its users to keep the site fresh and up to date.

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sghawken 26.04.2007 (26.04.2007)
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The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nothing But The Truth?

Advantages: Extensive site with a little about lots and lots
Disadvantages: Detail varies greatly depending on the item

I'm an impatient little bunny at times, and sometimes I want to know stuff right now, not in a week or next month or sometime in the future. Today the big question on my mind was who the Carver in Nip/Tuck is since I've not seen all of the 3rd series yet, so in a moment of spoiler-inducing-madness I googled a question to that effect, and was immediately met with dozens of sites that could tell me. The first one I clicked on was Wikipedia because ...
...Wikipedia is a free, online encyclopaedia that is available in a ridiculous number of languages though the pages are not direct translations of each other, and some languages offer many more topics than others. The English language site contains English and Australian entries but the vast majority of them are American. The unique feature of Wikipedia is that anyone can write and edit entries, and it appears to be almost entirely community driven ...

zoe_page 12.02.2006 · Read full review
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The Knowledge Of The World At Your Fingertips!

Advantages: Free, Constantly Updated
Disadvantages: Some Information Not Yet Added

Wikipedia is a free Online Encyclopaedia that I first stumbled across about a year ago whilst researching an article I was writing on the languages and dialects of Europe. I use Google as my everyday Internet search engine and as I entered various words and phrases I found myself taken to a specific article within the Wikipedia database time and time again. I found that the majority of the articles were incredibly informative but most importantly ...
...very easy to understand. Within the text of each article you will regularly come across specific words which are in bold text and I quickly discovered that these were hyperlinks to related articles in Wikipedia so once you have found your first article of relevance it is then incredibly easy to jump around to another relevant page and another. I quickly became very impressed with Wikipedia to the point where I found myself searching Google for ...

micksheff 27.10.2005 · Read full review
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An Online Encyclopedia

Advantages: Tonnes of information, easy to use
Disadvantages: Not something you should trust entirely

The Internet is a wonderful thing. It is a source of information, entertainment and general means of procrastination for millions of users across the globe. I’ve been quite fortunate in that given my age, (and access to certain pieces of technology) I’ve seen the Internet, (at least the Internet as we know it today) grow and have seen several revolutionary products, ideas and website rise (and occasionally fall). You could spend your entire lifetime ...
...manage to see an extremely small proportion of what it actually has to offer. Every so often though, a website comes along that sucks in virtually everyone who encounters it and even those who perhaps have never used the Internet before. Google is a classic example, so much so that a significant proportion of the population will now say “Go Google it”, rather than ‘use a search engine’. A more recent example, which is still in its infancy, but has ...

BlueMidget 25.06.2007 · Read full review
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The Ultimate Font of Useless Knowledge

Advantages: Over 2m articles, regularly checked for vandalism
Disadvantages: Not 100% reliable

== The Ultimate Font of Useless Knowledge == As a history student, Wikipedia is a very useful tool. It allows me to research basic facts about areas of history I have never read about before, as well as providing links to more 'reliable' sources for greater depth. That said, Wikipedia is not and in my opinion should not be allowed to be used as a citation in an essay, for reasons I am going to explain. === What is it? === Wikipedia is a website ...
...name is a compound of the two ideals behind the website. A 'wiki' is a method of allowing users to easily edit and update a website. The 'pedia' is derived from what Wikipedia aims to be - an online encyclopaedia. === How comprehensive is it? === It is perhaps the most comprehensive resource tool on the internet. It has over two million English articles, and anything up to 700000 of these are replicated in every other language in the world. === ...

martin0201 29.12.2007 · Read full review
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FACT CHECK!

Advantages: great source of info
Disadvantages: anyone can add info, so some info could be false!

Wikipedia is an incredible resource to the online community. Its content is entirely made up by people like you and me - which is not always a good thing. It provides a huge amount of information on anything imaginable and seems to also be something students take advantage of to cheat. Wikipedia entries in the past have received a lot of attention from the news media. Once in a while someone will update an entry and make up a lie which spreads around ...
...always fact check things on Wikipedia. Some statements just appear there and you shouldn't take it as 100% truth. You'll notice links at the bottom which show the source of some of the information within an entry, so you can determine yourself if its legitimate or not based on those sites. I mean if the source of information is coming from an official government site and you check it out, clearly its good.. but if its from like 'Bob's Take on World ...

randomreviews2 17.09.2009 · Read full review
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