Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia

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Wikipedia is really an interesting phenomenon. It's a big wiki that has grown to be an impressive and comprehensive online encyclopedia of knowledge. Being a wiki, it allows anyone to contribute, edit, add or change any page.

It's interesting to me how much more information you can glean from something like this than you can an online encyclopedia. I think this comes from the linkability and editing power of a wiki.

You might look up "koi" and find links to a definition of koi that contains links to other pages with deeper information. In the koi wiki, there are links to "Cyprinidae", "goldfish" and "Japan". Each subject lets you link to more rich information- and it grows everyday.

I think this is something I'll use.