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<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 04:35, 29 March 2006</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 3:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 3:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*Wikipedia founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*Wikipedia founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*&quot;an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language.&quot;</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">*&quot;an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language.&quot;</td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; 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font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">*changes are made immediately</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">*slogan &quot;The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit&quot;</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">*from the outset the project caused some contravercy</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">*had produced 1 million articles (350 million words) of good (although varying) content</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">*nature study of 50 articles found wikipedia to have 4 errors/article compared to 3 for britannica</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; 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<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 03:35, 29 March 2006</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">Wiki Accuracy</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">Wiki Accuracy</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*Wikipedia founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*&quot;an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language.&quot;</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*229 languages, 10 larger than britannica, 39 with more than 10,000 articles</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*</td></tr> </table>

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