wikipedia

Wikipedia is an online multilingual encyclopedia project launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

It has over 10 million articles, about a quarter of which are in English and all of which have been written collaboratively by volunteers from all over the Internet. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone, and users collectively police the quality of the content based on a set of consensual rules. The process of editing by consensus can sometimes lead to bias, inconsistency or homogenization of content.

It is currently the largest and most popular general reference resource on the Internet.

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• Wikipedians, a fount of knowledge and wisdom?

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 443
  From a longer article analysing the integrity of Wikipedia , a demographic breakdown of its editors : Wikipedians are 80 percent male, more than 65 percent single, more than 85 percent without children, and around 70 percent of them are under the age of 30.
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• The winter of Little Man’s discontent

  
  David Shankbone — Authority: 465
  Every year as winter approaches, I notice a change in my dog Little Man’s personality. At eight pounds, he is a small guy in a big city and he has known nothing else but this city his whole life. That is, except for travels to my sister’s in New Jersey and our month out in Colorado, New York City to him is ...
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• Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Review!

  
  Sushubh's Blog — Authority: 110
  This is not going to be a formal review. But a rant piece instead. A lot has been spoken about this movie in the recent times. Rajkumar Santoshi directed this one. He apparently wanted this to become a huge hit so he went ahead and said something like… Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani is [...]
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• Brenthaven: The best computer backpack I’ve ever seen

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
  -: Accessories , Reviews The TUAW gang have been searching for great holiday gift ideas and I think I’ve found one that’s been right under my nose for five years. When I bought my brand new PowerBook G4 17″ in 2004, I splurged and bought a Brenthaven backpack for it. Back then it cost a good deal more than the ...
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• Ann Jillian,Ann Jillian Photos,Ann Jillian Bio

  
  India News : Nhatky.in — Authority: 516
  Ann Jillian born 29 January 1950 in Cambridge , Massachusetts, her parents are Roman Catholic Lithuanian immigrant who can speak fluent Lithuanian, is an American actress who began acting at age 10. His career reached its zenith in the 1980s, his best known role is that of Cassie Cranston waitress in the series is ...
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• November 9 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 574
  On November 9: 1494 The Family de’ Medici became rulers of Florence . 1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sighted land at Cape Cod , Massachusetts . 1769 Captain Cook observed the transit of Mercury . 1841 King Edward VII was born. 1857   The Atlantic  magazine was founded in ...
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• Poem: She Came in Like a Wreaking Ball

  
  Authspot — Authority: 513
  She came in like a wreaking ball you swept me away and told me to stay there for I was in the way you say I over reacted as she sat and stayed I lay in the rubble from what my  was what it is no longer for she came in like a wreaking ball and through me away Image via Wikipedia
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• What is the correct hamartiological doctrine?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 165
  According to Wikipedia: hamartiology is the study of sin with a view to articulating a doctrine of it. In other words, What is sin, its nature and origin?
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• Globe Offers Surf All Day Mobile Plans for Friendster and Facebook

  
  CleverHound.com — Authority: 91
  Globe Tattoo is breaking the limits on mobile access on your favorite social networking sites. They’re giving a 24-hour unlimited surfing all day and night access to your Friendster, Facebook, Wikipedia, Plurk or Ping.fm for only P20 using your mobile phone available to all their Globe postpaid and prepaid ...
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• Ann Jillian

  
  All World News - PakMahfil.com — Authority: 461
  Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress, who started acting at age 10.
  23 hours ago

• CARRIE PREJEAN, Caught With Her Pants Down Literally, Settles Lawsuit After Sex Tape Expose!!!

  
  Astrochicks — Authority: 431
  Miss Carrie “Christian” Prejean, has some explaining to do. In a new sex tape expose, she had to quietly settle her lawsuit against pageant officials. Such a hypocrite…Our lusty Taurus girl, filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit, claiming the pageant fired her for her religious beliefs. According to E News, they ...
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• DWTS, Birthday Girl Kelly Osbourne, Will She Salsa Her Way to the Crown!!!

  
  Astrochicks — Authority: 431
  I absolutely LOVE Kelly Osbourne. I’m crossing my fingers she will win the Dancing With the Stars crown. Our Scorpio girl,  recently celebrated her birthday and got a new puppy. In case you missed her last week, here is a video clip of her doing the salsa!!!
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• Corporatocracy

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 464
  This article has multiple issues. No kidding. Let’s start at the beginning: Is corporatocracy a far-left conspiracy theory or is it that government of the people, for the people and by the people perishing from the earth? read more
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• KIM ZOLCIAK, Says She is Not a Homewrecker But Loves Botox!!!

  
  Astrochicks — Authority: 431
  Wow, how fake does Kim look in this photo? I wonder what she looks like without her wig, makeup, and botox? Why does a supposedly 30 year old woman need botox? Seriously?Our Taurus girl, Miss Tardy for the Pardy, claims not to be a home wrecker. I wonder what Big Poppa’s wife says about that? [...]
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• Wikipedia moves faster on Joseph Cao than everyone else

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 590
  “When you Google Joseph Cao, the text that comes up in the search says, ‘Joseph Cao has no family. He was born of Satan and lost a soul the day he voted against republicans. Cao’s father, My Quang Cao (born 1931), …’” An unsigned Wikipedia comment on the Joseph Cao talk page • Noting the speed at which ...
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• Hands-on: OpenMoko WikiReader is simple, appealing

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 461
  ars Technica: "Ars takes a hands-on look at OpenMokos WikiReader, a handheld device that provides convenient offline access to millions of Wikipedia entries."
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• "Other aspects of Wikipedia’s history are vividly described but lack discerning intellectual..."

  
  c0wb0yz Lives ! — Authority: 436
  “Other aspects of Wikipedia’s history are vividly described but lack discerning intellectual treatment. Lih sheds little light on the “routinization” of the charismatic and ultimately benevolent authority of Jimmy Wales, how that authority evolved into a vast bureaucratic apparatus with a Kafkaesque system of ...
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• November 7

  
  LocalBias — Authority: 151
  
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• Very Tasteful – “WIKI-MAN”

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 148
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• Whats it all about?

  
  Andy Best — Authority: 120
  From Wikipedia , which quotes an amazing book I read at college Subculture, The Meaning Of Style . A subculture is a group of people with a culture (whether distinct or hidden) which differentiates them from the larger culture to which they belong. As early as 1950, David Riesman distinguished between a ...
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