This article in the SMH takes a look at the first international Wikimania conference held in Frankfurt last month and says “in less than five years, Wikipedia has become one of the web’s greatest success stories. The online encyclopedia and its sister projects, including Wikiquote, record 60 million hits a day and have amassed more than 2.2 million entries in 120 languages, making Wikipedia the most detailed collection of information in history”.
The most detailed collection of information in history
- September 20th, 2005
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@ 05:48
Wikis are an amazing feature of Web 2.0 but they suffer the same problem RSS and other 2.0 features share - no one knows about them. Blogs are still suffering from poor image held by regular folk.