Wiki What?

In recent months, more and more has been said on the Internet about the use of the Wikipedia web site.

What is the Wikipedia?

Quite simply, it is an online encyclopedia serving to provide information on thousands of topics. But the nicest thing is that anyone in the world who might find an error in Wikipedia's information, or better yet, have more good information to add, can log in and edit and update a record.

While print encyclopedias like the World Book exist in both print and electronic forms, data and information from them can still appear out of date. Wikipedia provides links to current news, from the Stock Market to the Olympics, and then provides links throughout it's presentation to the related articles in the Wikipedia itself.

The jury is still out on the effectiveness of the Wikipedia and it's official appropriateness as a source for things like school papers, but it is the slowly growing "in thing," a community encyclopedia on the web. We invite you to check it out and let us know what you think about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia