Last time I blogged about Google Knol and I wrote that it was Google's answer to Wikipedia. I thought that this time I would take the time to explain actually what Wikipedia is all about because there may be some people who actually do not know about it

Wikipedia is defined as a multi-lingual, Weg-based, free-content encyclopedia project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About. The articles posted on Wikipedia are used as a guide to provide its users to related pages with other information. Unlike Google Knol, Wikipedia is written colaboratively by different people from around the world. If you have access to the Internet, then you can make changes to just about any Wikipedia articles.

One doesn't even have to have any specific qualifications to contribute to an article. The very intent of Wikipedia is to cover existing knowledge not actually create any new research. Anyone can cross-reference & add to articles if they want. Wikipedia has actual editing policies that they administer and a standard to which it holds the information. Any disputed and substandard information is subject to be removed. Wikipedia was created in 2001 and now has over 75,000 active contributors.