Information Madness

India is the focus for Wikipedia this year. Wikipedia, which is one of the world’s most popular websites, is turning its focus on India this year and is concentrating on touching actual people in the country as part of its growing plans. The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, announced that the internet encyclopaedia already has a lot of people doing studies and outreach exercises on the ground in India.

These people are helping to solve technical questions collaborating with the universities and letting the public know that Wikipedia does exist in all those Indian languages.

Wikipedia has been declared as the world’s fifth most popular website. These pilot studies in India have been a good learning experience for them and they intend to use this gathered knowledge from India in other regions as well.

In the past five years, they have worked hard on the Middle East and North Africa as their key areas. Wikipedia feels very strongly that it has played a great role by contributing in the uprisings that began early this year and have already pulled the rug from under the feet of three well entrenched regimes.

Wikipedia is very much interested in the growth of the languages of the developing world. Today, Wikipedia has become a household name globally and is considered a valuable resource for millions of people. It has published more than twenty million articles across two hundred and eighty two languages since it began in 2001.