"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."

                Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder

"So, have some knowledge about your favorite hobby that isn't on Wikipedia? Add it. Read something you think isn't correct? Fix it. Don't like the way one of the entries is written? Erase it. Something big just happen in the news that is history making? Start a new entry. You have the power, because every time you access Wikipeia or most any other wiki for that matter, you do so as Editor in Chief. And it's that freedom that has made Wikipedia the phenomenon it is as tens of thousands of Editors in Chief, people just like you and me, take on the ob of collecting the sum of human knowledge. "

                                                 From Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson

Wikipedia Facts

1. There are more editors that want entries to be correct than those that want to enter incorrect information. Mistakes are usually corrected very quickly.

2. Edits appear at a rate of one every two or three seconds.

3. The Indian tsumami that struck just after midnight on December 26, 2004, generated a 76 word Wikipedia entry about 9 hours later. Twenty-four hours after the first mention, the entry had been edited more than 400 times and had grown to about 3,000 words. Forty-eight hours after the first post, the entry had grown to more than 6,500 words had been edited 1,200 times.

Wikipedia article on Indian Tsunami

Wikipedia article on Hurricane Ike