What About Wikipedia?

When discussing social networks and collaborative websites, we'd be remiss to gloss over Wikipedia. Wikipedia is, of course, the world's collaboratively written encyclopedia. Its size is extraordinary: 13 million articles in more than 260 languages, nearly 3 million articles in English, almost 10 million registered users, and about 65 million visitors each month.[88] Millions visit Wikipedia every day. Wikipedia is a trusted source of information. It wields remarkable authority, often features prominently in search results, and can send considerable traffic to your website. You may have noticed that Wikipedia articles often appear as top search results for keywords relating to your business. Wikipedia is constantly being ...

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