The commencement of the Web based technology or the Internet as the aftermath of the Information Revolution has by leaps and bounds in the recent years has become the fastest medium in the worldwide scale, with escalating users on each day! However though the main purpose has been the gathering of info, even though there have no such device through which the essential information could have been gathered by virtue of one click till the introduction of Wikipedia.
The Wikipedia is regarded as an encyclopedia with open source and has been regarded as the greatest reference work in history till now. It is rather a website which invites anybody to write and thus to contribute articles on any topic that falls in the broad category of their choice. It is estimated that at present it is the greatest accessed website in the array of websites from the entire world and to the regular users it has been a remarkable success. The greatest USP or Unique Selling Proposition of the website is the enormous army consisting of thousands of amateur writers weighing in on an infinite variety of topics. Just as an example, in the summer of 2005, the very site of Wikipedia was having a collection of 850,000 articles only in the English language, not to speak of the other collections in the other prominent religions of the world. Though it is true that the introduction of articles in other widely accepted languages has been of late but within a very short time due its fabulous contents and on any topic under the sun has become the darling of the millions. To the professional estimation at present the website has a unique collection in excess of 1.3 million articles in English, 445,000 in German, 342,000 in French along with lesser totals but even though of a very high collection in other languages like Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese.
