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I Love Wikipedia
My favorite website of all time has to be Wikipedia.org. Since its birth in 2001 as a free encyclopedia project it has mushroomed into a multilingual giant of reference on the web, with more than 5 million articles and more than 75,000 active contributors.
The two key points about Wikipedia are – it’s free and it can be edited by anyone (whether you are an expert or a casual reader). Of course the latter leaves it open to errors, vandalism or deliberate misinformation – but Wikipedia has an editorial team of over 1,000 administrators to do the necessary cleaning up (e.g. unreferenced “facts” are removed and known vandals are blocked). Another superiority over traditional knowledge sources is that Wikipedia is constantly growing, changing, evolving with new information on a live basis available to all Internet users at a very “cheap” cost.
It’s a wonderful place in which to gain and share information regardless of age, experience or culture. Its stated mission of “bringing free knowledge to everyone on the planet” may be some way away yet, but as one of the ten most popular websites on the planet, it sure is off to a good start!