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January 21, 2003 › Sandy McMurray | comment

Wikipedia is a multilingual encyclopedia that's created by volunteers and published free on the Web. The English-language version reached a milestone last week, when its 100,000th article was published.

Wikipedia is an example of open content -- information that is not only free (as in "free beer") but also free (as in "free speech"). The Wikipedia copyright page says "content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the recipient grants the same freedoms to others using their version and they acknowledge Wikipedia as the source."

Wikipedia belongs to everyone. Check it out.

P.S. See also H2G2.

January 21, 2003 › Sandy McMurray | comment on this item

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