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With the Wikipedia now having more than fifty five million articles, it is already well over twenty times the size of what was previously the world's largest encyclopedia (the largest edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which contains 65,000 articles). With each new article, information is becoming more accessible than it ever has before.
A popular book is sometimes re-issued under the imprint of a book club. Often it is a new setting and with cheaper paper and binding. Any photographic illustrations in the original are either absent or reduced in number. Book club editions are sold to members at a good discount compared with the original issue price.
Book club may refer to: Book discussion club, a group of people who meet to discuss a book or books that they have read Literature circle, a group of students who meet in a classroom to discuss a book or books that they have read; Book sales club, a subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books
The number of Wikipedia articles grew exponentially from October 2002 to October 2006. By 2009, new article growth had become logarithmic. [4]Currently the Wikipedia has over 6,926,315 articles, making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled, eclipsing even the Yongle Encyclopedia (completed in 1408), which held the record for nearly 600 years. [5]
The false information lasted for six years and was propagated by hundreds of websites, several newspapers, and even a few books published by university presses. [1] [2] The reliability of Wikipedia and its volunteer-driven and community-regulated editing model, particularly its English-language edition, has been questioned and tested.
See also why Wikipedia is so great. Learning to write in a neutral point of view is a useful intellectual exercise, since it requires cultivating humility and respect for the views of others. Wikipedia is a remarkable phenomenon of social organization; learning how things work here provides valuable lessons for many other kinds of organizations.
Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia is a list of insights about Wikipedia specifically targeted at people who have limited or no prior experience with the project (such as journalists, new editors, and new readers). These explanations should not surprise experienced editors but will hopefully help the rest of the world to shape an ...
If you have a suggestion for a future collaboration or have any questions, please feel free to make a note on the talk page. The current book collaboration is The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham. Nominations for the January 2006 book collaboration are on the talk page.