(January 15, 2001- )
Free-content encyclopedia website
Absorbed its predecessor, the expert-written Nupedia (September 2003)
Contains more than 1.5 million articles in 195 different languages
Sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation
As of 2005, it has 13,000 active users
As of 2005, it receives around 50 million hits per day

Because its on the traditionally sensationalistic Internet, it is not as well-respected as other traditional encyclopedias.
Some don't consider it to be a real encyclopedia.
Its articles are open for anybody to edit, which makes vandalism and inaccuracy a problem.
Nobody gets paid for contributing well-written articles.
It switched from a .com to a .org domain name.
Its spin offs include Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons and Wikinews.
There are huge 'edit wars' when editors do not agree on the content of an article.

It's free.
Like most professionally written encyclopedias, it attempts to observe a neutral point of view.
Unlike most encyclopedias, this one can adapt to an ongoing event or crisis. It was used by numerous media outlets during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
There was a debate whether AmIAnnoying.com deserved an article on their site. Ultimately, it decided in favor (without a vote against) of keeping the AmIAnnoying.com page on their site (March 17, 2005).
Through its website, you can figure out what a 'wiki' actually is.
It does not mind when other web pages borrow its content, because its all free.
It covers a huge range of topics; more than most encyclopedias.
It's one of the (if not the) best reference sites on the web.

Credit: Captain Howdy

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For 2009, as of last week, Out of 38 Votes: 34.21% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 88 Votes: 35.23% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 151 Votes: 45.70% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 303 Votes: 43.23% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 505 Votes: 41.98% Annoying

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