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Wikipedia has a lofty goal: "a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge." [1]Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by acting as a widely accessible and free encyclopedia; a comprehensive written compendium that contains information on all branches of knowledge.
A city wiki or local wiki is a wiki used as a knowledge base and social network for a specific geographical locale. [50] [51] [52] The term city wiki is sometimes also used for wikis that cover not just a city, but a small town or an entire region. Such a wiki contains information about specific instances of things, ideas, people and places.
It would go against one of Wikipedia's core principles as stated on the Meta.; It would cause many useful contributors not to edit Wikipedia. Many people do not desire to edit under user accounts and therefore their contributions would be lost.
Wikipedia is by far the world's largest encyclopedia; it is the largest, most comprehensive, and most accessible compilation of knowledge to exist in the history of the human race.
The Dilbert comic strip from 8 May 2009, features a character supporting an improbable claim by saying "Give me ten minutes and then check Wikipedia." [ 305 ] In July 2009, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a comedy series called Bigipedia , which was set on a website which was a parody of Wikipedia. [ 306 ]
Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by presenting information on all branches of knowledge. Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia consists of freely editable content, with articles that often contain numerous links guiding readers to more information.
A long-running debate amongst Wikipedians is whether or not to require users to register an account in order to be able to edit or not. Though consensus is currently such that creating an account is not a prerequisite for editing, many Wikipedians feel that there are reasons why it should be a prerequisite.
Wiki markup is used extensively throughout Wikipedia for such things as hyperlinks, tables and columns, footnotes, inline citation, special characters and so on. An "edit toolbar" ( as pictured below ) is provided just above the edit box, which will allow logged in users (by selecting the option in personal preferences ) to automatically place ...