Site of the Day for Monday, September 6, 2004 Wikipedia Today's site is that lofty enterprise "Wikipedia", an ambitious project to create an open-concept encyclopedia, with free access for Web users around the world. Gentle Subscribers who may have overlooked this idealistic undertaking may be heartened by its ongoing development, which is approaching one million articles in all languages. "Welcome to Wikipedia! We are building an open-content encyclopedia in many languages. In the English version, started in January 2001, we are now working on 340957 articles... Wikipedia is a project to produce a new kind of encyclopedia that is comprehensive and free. ... Who is responsible for the articles on Wikipedia? This is a collaborative endeavor. Thousands of people have contributed to different parts of this project, and anyone can do so, including you." - from the website The main page of the site offers a daily featured article, a sidebar of current news stories, selected historical anniversaries and a "Did You Know?" section, highlighting Wikipedia's latest articles. Since this is an encyclopedia, the search function, to the left, scoures Wikipedia's entries for relevant information. Within the articles, additional references are hot-linked to related material. While the accuracy and depth of the entries may be uneven, Wikipedia, nevertheless, is a valuable resource. Swing over to the site for an interesting encyclopedia project at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page A.M. Holm <admin-sotd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Manage your subscription and view the List archives on the web at: <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?webpage_id=sotd> and <//www.freelists.org/archives/sotd> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSUBSCRIBE by sending a blank email to sotd-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field.