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== '''DIGITAL VILLAGES TODAY''' ==

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Jimmy Wales, a 38-year-old computer programmer in St. Petersburg, Fla., is trying to make the entire concept of a printed reference book obsolete. Three years ago he created the Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org), a free online encyclopedia that draws articles not from a sequestered brain trust of academics but from the great unwashed: thousands of Internet users around the world who freely add to and edit the site. 

Take a look at the Five Pillars of [[
Wikipedia:Five_pillars]].

It's one part reference tool, one part fascinating social experiment. Visitors can create their own entries or change existing ones, contributing their bookish wisdom and, yes, sometimes mistakes or outright misinformation as well. 

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