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Not Your Father's Encyclopedia (Wired)
Wired looks up
Wikipedia, an open source encyclopedia. "In Wikipedia's second
year, editors have added 80,000 entries to the English version and 33,000
more to the other language editions. The surge in growth has made it the
world's largest and fastest growing open-content encyclopedia, according to
its founders."
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and it runs on Linux of course Posted Jan 29, 2003 6:11 UTC (Wed) by jdthood (subscriber, #4157) [Link] And the Linux connection, of course is (from Netcraft):The site www.wikipedia.org is running Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 on Linux
Other links of interest Posted Jan 29, 2003 11:51 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] Interesting article, all of wikipedia is released under the GNU Free Documentation License, pretty cool.One of my favourite things about community projects is that both Wikipedia and Nupedia link to eachother on their front pages. The job getting done seems to be more important that *who* gets it done first. Strange. also of interest: Ciaran O'Riordan
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