Three things that I learned are that : Wikipedia is more popular than the New York Times, there is really only a core 600-1000 people are the majority who make edits to site and that their overhead is only $5,000 dollars in bandwidth is their main expense with the one engineer. Two things that I liked is that it was vastly volunteers and the had one employed software engineer as of 2005 and I absolutely love they openly challenge people to compare them to other sites and sources and post those results so that everyone can see. Lastly, I do not like that it is sort of an aristocracy, meaning some people carry far more weight than others. However, I do see the need for this.
The link about the site on ways to use Wikipedia did not really surprise me because i use it the same way when I write papers or have an assignments. The sources at the bottom of the page are when I get a lot of my useful information.
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