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Chapters: Homestar Runner, Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, Conservapedia, Operation Clambake, Internet Archive, Craigslist, Irregular Webcomic!, Pubmed, Tvark, Google Reader, Erowid, Art.net, Ourproject.org, Eric Conveys an Emotion, World Socialist Web Site, Talkorigins Archive, Access to Insight, Science and Development Network, Reel Top 40 Radio Repository, Biographicon, Uchronia: the Alternate History List, Lib.ru, Findsyou.com, Killing the Buddha, Paperbackswap, Wikilosrios, World Wide Web Virtual Library, Wwwjdic, Open Library, Tree of Life Web Project, National Agricultural Safety Database, Diplomacy Monitor, Bbc Guide to Comedy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 212. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 15 million articles (over 3.3 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Although the policies of the Wikipedia strongly espouse verifiability and a neutral point of view, critics of Wikipedia accuse it of systemic bias and inconsistencies (including undue weight given to popular culture), and allege that it favors consensus over credentials in its editorial process. Its reliability and accuracy are also targeted. Other criticisms center on its susceptibility to vandalism and the addition of spurious or unverified information, though scholarly work suggests that vandalism is generally short-lived, and an investigation in Nature found that the material they compared came close to the...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5043734 ... Read more