4 days ago · An encyclopedia or encyclopaedia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either from all branches or from a particular field or discipline.
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An encyclopedia is a type of reference work.. Encyclopedia...
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4 days ago · Wikipedia (/ ˌ w ɪ k ɪ ˈ p iː d i ə / wik-ih-PEE-dee-ə or / ˌ w ɪ k i-/ wik-ee-) is a free, multilingual open-collaborative online encyclopedia created and maintained by a community of volunteer contributors using a wiki-based editing system.
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6 days ago · Wikipedia (pronunciation (help·info)) is a free Internet encyclopedia website in many languages. People can freely use it, share it and change it, without having to pay. It is also one of the biggest wiki organizations. People can choose to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects.
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Alternative forms
1. wikipedia(when used as a common noun)
Etymology
Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger.
Pronunciation
1. (UK) IPA(key): /ˌwɪkɪˈpiːdɪə/ 2. (US) enPR: wĭ'kēpēʹdēə, wĭ'kəpēʹdēə, IPA(key): /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdi.ə/, /ˌwɪkəˈpiːdi.ə/ 3. Rhymes: -iːdiə
Etymology
Borrowed from English Wikipedia.
Proper noun
Wikipedia (genitive Wikipedias) 1. Wikipedia
Noun
Wikipedia c (singular definite Wikipediaen, plural indefinite Wikipediaer) 1. Wikipedia(a version of the encyclopedia project)
Etymology
Borrowed from English Wikipedia, blend of Hawaiian wiki + English encyclopedia. Surface analysis: Hawaiian wiki (“speedy”) + Italian -pedia (“-pedia”).
Pronunciation
1. (standard) IPA(key): /wi.kiˈpe.dia/ 2. (alternative pronunciations) IPA(key): /vi.kiˈpe.dia/, /wi.kiˈpi.dia/, /vi.kiˈpi.dia/ 3. Hyphenation: wi‧ki‧pé‧dia
Proper noun
Wikipedia f 1. Wikipedia 1.1. la Wikipedia in lingua italiana/inglese/spagnola ― the Wikipediain Italian/English/Spanish language
Etymology
From English Wikipedia.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /vʲi.kʲiˈpɛd.ja/
Proper noun
Wikipedia f 1. (Internet) Wikipedia
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4 days ago · From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Simple English Wikipedia is an English-language version of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, that is written at a basic level of English. It was created on September 18, 2001.
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The most obvious difference is that there are, in principle, no size limits in the Wikipedia universe. It is quite possible, for example, that when you finish typing in everything you want to say about poker, there might well be over 100 pages, and enough text for a full-length book by itself. This would certainly never be tolerated in a paper encyclopedia, which is why Encyclopædia Britannicahas such limited information on the topic (and on most other topics). Plain text takes up an almost negligible amount of disk space. At seven letters per word, a 300 GB hard drive that costs around US$40 can hold 45 billion words, which amounts to 12.1 million words “per penny”. As of 2012, a 1 TB hard drive costs about the same amount that 300 GB used to cost when this article was first written. A 1-terabyte hard drive can hold 153.6 billion words (1000 GB = 1 TB), which amounts to 38.4 million words per penny (and growing). The Nupedia FAQ rightly warned about taxing a reader's patience with...
Of course, a 100-page thesis on poker is useless to someone who merely needs an article summarizing the basic rules and history of the game. The purpose of a normal encyclopedia is to provide the reader a brief overview of the subject, while a reference book or text book can explain the details. Wikipedia can do both. Because Wikipedia is not on paper, it can provide summaries of all subjects of interest and alsoprovide exhaustive detail on those subjects, conveniently linked, categorized, and searchable for readers who want more detail. The key to avoiding information overload is to break an article down into sections and subsections. Only if the topics of the subsections differ too much from the topic of the article itself it is necessary to break an article into several pages. For example, Poker can be broken into a basic "Poker" article which is only one page (about 30 KB) and links to "History of poker", "Modern popularity of poker", and variations of the game, such as "Stud po...
Some standards of writing that apply to paper don't really apply to Wikipedia. Jimbo Wales has said that Wikipedia needs its own style standards, but these will evolve to suit its needs and abilities. He adds, "And of course, the open nature of the software means that enforcement only comes to the extent that we authors care to enforce it." For example, CMS (The Chicago Manual of Style) tells the writer or editor to briefly gloss, or explain, the first use of an abbreviation (as just demonstrated with "CMS"). Jargon can be treated similarly. This treatment makes a lot of sense on paper: if an article mentions an arcane subject or if it uses an abbreviation or jargon, the reader may need to know more about it, and so giving a full name or a cross-reference will help find it. But Wikipedia has something even better than a parenthetical gloss of just a few words: an electronic link to a thorough treatment of the subject. Paper-based publishing style: Wikipedia publishing style: Likewis...
Although, as Jimbo Wales has said, it is best to write in a timeless fashion, because it is likely that many pages will grow gracefully old, Wikipedia allows readers to edit material that has become outdated or requires more detail. In this way, brief overviews can become detailed treatises (although they should still start with a brief overview). The articles in a paper encyclopedia are all compiled and printed at roughly the same time, and old sets are generally replaced by whole new sets. But Wikipedia pages cannot assume that the reader will have any idea about the historical context in which the article is written, or the state of any article to which it refers. Wikipedians must be careful, then, to imagine how an article might appear to someone reading it after changes have been made in articles to which it links. This is a rare instance of something that is actually more difficult in a wiki than on paper. Not only will a list of recent celebrity deathsobviously need to be rew...
Wikipedia does not need trees to be cut down to print its pages or gasoline to be refined to deliver its content. It requires electrical energy, affordable computing infrastructure and world wide access to a planetary computing gridto meet its articulated goal of providing free access to human knowledge for all humans.
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