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Wikipedia

Wikipedia helps with lots of thing like for black history or for simply looking people or places up.

Founder and creator

The founder of Wikipedia is Larry Sanger and the creator was Jimmy Wales Wikipedia was launched as a feature of Nupedia.com, but, following objections from the advisory board, it was relaunched as an independent Web site a few days later. In its first year Wikipedia expanded to some 20,000 articles in 18 languages, including French, German, Polish, Dutch, Hebrew, Chinese, and Esperanto.

Issues And Controversies

Reliance on community self-policing has generated some problems. In 2005 the American journalist John L. Seigenthaler, Jr ., discovered that his Wikipedia biography falsely identified him as a potential conspirator in the assassinations of both John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and that these malicious claims had survived Wikipedia’s community policing for 132 days. The author of this information could not be easily identified, since all that is known about unregistered contributors is their computers’ IP, or Internet protocol, addresses (many of which are dynamically generated each time a user goes online). (The contributor later confessed and apologized, saying that he wrote the false information as a joke.)