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http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/5508007/What_Wikipedia_is_made_of Fifty web answers to

"Wikipedia is made up of ..."


 * opinionated people
 * people just like you
 * volunteers
 * editors with good ideas that they pursue energetically
 * two different kinds of individuals; editors and writers
 * many users with many viewpoints
 * people posting things
 * any users who know knowledge
 * random people


 * articles that the users of the site either write or edit themselves
 * cross-linked articles that can be edited by anyone at any time
 * voluntary user contributions
 * user-edited articles
 * user-generated content
 * our collective typing
 * average people's comments
 * information gathered by independent sources on the internet
 * collaborative content that can be edited at any time
 * public contributions
 * contributions from the public
 * facts, opinions and collections of facts (statistics)
 * user submissions
 * several entries in several different categories
 * user submitted (mis)information
 * content from users
 * entries submitted by the community
 * contributions by its own readers
 * articles that anybody can post, even you
 * user entries
 * mostly left-leaning articles
 * entries submitted by anyone on the net who wants to submit something
 * user-based articles
 * information that anybody can submit
 * individual contributions
 * articles that were written by regular joes
 * comments from PEOPLE and THEIR knowledge
 * 1 or 2 line edits by millions of people
 * entries by people just like you and I, not by experts
 * insertions by ordinary people
 * what people of widely varying expertise have contributed
 * information gathered by anyone that wants to post there


 * five big trees upon which everything else is based
 * its information and its people who add that information
 * two aspects which can be in direct conflict - on the one hand is the policies, and, more importantly in many ways, the principles that found Wikipedia
 * a number of namespaces
 * overlapping communities
 * a Bow-Tie structure
 * fluid heterarchies organized through ad hoc meritocratic governance
 * the wisdom of crowds