A few years back, there used to be a huge stack of big books in many houses. Those who have watched the TV series 'Friends' would know the books better through Joey (he was made to buy them in one of the episodes).
They were encyclopedia. These books were the source of any(or most) sort of information available to mankind at that particular time. They were written by a small group of scholars and they were revered as much as the Bible or any ancient scripture, if not more. But with time, everything changes--size of the computer, human knowledge, hair on your head and many more things. We now have Wikipedia at our fingertips.
Wikipedia is awesome! It is one of the best uses of crowdsourcing. Here, information is entered by common people (Yes. Anybody can add information) and the best thing is, since not all the information entered is correct, it is edited by people (again, can be anybody). This way knowledge and information are shared and it is FREE (Provided, you have internet. But there is an offline version as well.).
Even though, this information may not be devoid of factual and scientific errors, it provides easy information which can be checked for errors by looking at relevant (scientific) literature.
I just started editing Wikipedia and I feel good about it.
So. Have you started editing Wikipedia?
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How about now?
Did you register in Wikipedia?
Did you start reading the help page of Wikipedia?
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