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...Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a project long supported by Harvard's Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson, aims to compile information on over 1.8 million species, according to the group's Web site, which currently displays only a few sample entries...
...According to Hitwise, only 0.2% of visits to YouTube are users uploading a video, 0.05% visits to Google Video include uploaded videos and 0.16% of Flickr visits are people posting photos. Only the social encyclopedia Wikipedia shows a significant amount of participation, with 4.56% of visits to the site resulting in content editing...
Read these extra questions with the co-founder of the open-source encyclopedia, Wikipedia...
...founder of the open-source encyclopedia called Wikipedia is recruiting volunteer contributors from India to Japan, but collaboration comes with consequences. Jimmy Wales answers readers' questions...
...Academics are split on the usefulness of Wikipedia, which bills itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." The sheer volume of content (Wikipedia claims over 5.3 million entries, 1.6 million in English) is partly responsible for the site's dominance as an online reference. When compared to the top 3,200 educational reference sites in the U.S., Wikipedia is #1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category, according to Hitwise data. But as the recent drama illustrates, a body of online knowledge built by an army of 75,000 volunteer, anonymous contributors and editors is prone...