User:Laurelcrown

= Welcome to Laurelcrown's Editing Page =

Background on Wikipedia
Wikipedia/ˌwiːkiˈpiːdiə/ or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/) is a multilingual, Web-based, free content encyclopedia project. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau (combination) of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information.

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites attracting at least 684 million visitors yearly by 2008. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 10,000,000 articles in more than 250 languages. As of today, there are 2,354,942 articles in English; every day hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to enhance the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia. (See also: Wikipedia:Statistics).

Wikipedia and You
Wikipedia is an incredibly powerful tool. You can use the tools that you have gained this semester in Computer Science to edit and adapt this continuously evolving tool.   Add your own information to Wikipedia   Utilize the skills you have gained during this semester http://www.lclark.edu/~jmache/cs0/ 