http://en.wikipedia.org/ is the communal encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit entries simply by clicking on the edit this page link.
This site is terrific if you desire knowledge. Just type what you are looking for and presto you get information, pictures, links to the topic. Even as you read the information, there are hyperlinks incase you want more information on a particular topic in the information provided.
I love the format of this site. I was actually shocked to know that this site is actually updated with information by people like YOU and ME. In other words, they don’t have a department or staff who update the knowledge base of the site. The only thing the staff does is verify the information updated by you.
The only drawback of this site is the search is not strong enough. For instance: I wanted to search the ‘THRILLER’ video from Michael Jackson. No matter what I typed with the word Thriller, it never led me to information on Michael Jackson’s thriller video. BUT, when I typed Michael Jackson, it gave me all the information on the king of pop and from there I was able to click on a link related to his thriller video.
Still I would say it is a great resource of knowledge. It goes deep into the search you made and gives you the maximum information needed. I find no harm in trying a hand on this website.
Wikiquote is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates several other multilingual and free-content projects:
Wiktionary - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/en:Main_Page
Dictionary and thesaurus
Wikiquote - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
Quotations & Proverbs
Wikibooks - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/en:Main_Page
Free textbooks and manuals
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The free encyclopedia
Wikisource - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page:English
Free source documents
Wikispecies - http://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Directory of species
Wikinews - http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
Free content news source
Meta-Wiki - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikimedia project coordination
Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Shared media repository
Contributed by: Anonymous, Posted by: Yogesh Goel
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