Exhibits

Exhibit 1

Encyclopedias by Size

Encyclopedia Edition Articles
(thousands)
Words
(millions)
Est. characters
(millions)
Average words
per article
Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia)
English >1,300 511 >3,000 415
Encyclopedia Britannica
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica)
2002 85 44 300 650
Online 120 55 300 370
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Soviet_Encyclopedia)
1978 100 *21 200 500
Encyclopédie
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die)
1751-1780 72 20 278
Microsoft Encarta
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta)
Encarta Deluxe 2002 **70 40 200 600
Encarta Deluxe 2005*** 63 40 200 200
2002 Encarta Encyclopedia 40 26 200 200
Encyclopedia Americana
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Americana)
2004 45 25 556
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grolier_Multimedia_Encyclopedia_Online)
39 11 70 280
Columbia Encyclopedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Encyclopedia)
Sixth 51 6.5 40 130

Kenneth F. Kister, Kister's best encyclopedias: a comparative guide to general and specialized encyclopedias (1994), p. 450. [Article count is for the 82-volume edition, rather than the 119-volume one.] Number of encyclopedic articles. The Nationalencyklopedin contains a total of 356,000 entries. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Kister)
*Kister, op. cit., p. 365.
**Includes 10,000 historical archives.
***Advertised as containing "over 63,000 articles ... with 36,000-plus map locations, and over 29,000 editor-approved Web site links." The 2006 Premium CD-ROM had 68,000 articles. (http://www.microsoft.com/products/encarta/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=002)

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons.

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Exhibit 2

Growth in the number of articles in the Wikipedia.

source data: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesTotalAlt.htm.

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Exhibit 3

The number of Wikipedians who have edited at least 10 times since they registered in Wikipedia.

source data: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansContributors.htm.

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Exhibit 4

In October 2006 Wikipedia ranked in the top ten for global internet traffic, with over 150 million unique users.

Top Global Web Properties
Total Unique Visitors (000), age 15+ *
September 2006
Total Worldwide - Home and Work Locations
Source: comScore World Metrix
Web Properties Total Unique Visitors
(000) Sept-06
Worldwide Total
(Age 15+)
726,749
Microsoft Sites 505,479
Yahoo! Sites 480,641
Google Sites 467,498
eBay 237,327
Time Warner Network 217,843
Wikipedia Sites 154,848
Amazon Sites 133,518
Fox Interactive Media 117,789
Ask Network 112,768
Adobe Sites 95,196
Apple Computer, Inc. 94,909
Lycos, Inc. 91,126
CNET Networks 84,259
YouTube.com 81,019
Viacom Digital 65,799

* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes and access from mobile phones or PDAs.

source data: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1049.

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Exhibit 5

Sample Wikipedia Page

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Brittanica.

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Exhibit 6

Editing Articles in Wikipedia

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Encyclopedia_Brittanica&action=edit.

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Exhibit 7

Wikipedia History Page

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Encyclopedia_Brittanica&offset=20061121175020&action=history.

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Exhibit 8

Comparing Two Versions of an Article on Wikipedia.

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Encyclopedia_Brittanica&diff=91867590&oldid=86981077.

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Exhibit 9

Wikipedia Suitability policy

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOT.

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Exhibit 10

Wikipedia Verifiability policy

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability.

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Exhibit 11

Wikipedia No Original Research policy

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research.

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Exhibit 12

Wikipedia Neutral Point of View policy

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view.

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Exhibit 13

Wikipedia Notability guidelines

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability.

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Exhibit 14

Request for Adminship for a Sample User

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/HighInBC_2nd_nom.

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Exhibit 15

Enterprise 2.0 Article as encountered by Sleepyhead81

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Enterprise_2.0&oldid=69394280.

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Exhibit 16

Notice for Deletion

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Exhibit 17

Exhibit 17 shows

source data: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Enterprise_2.0_%28second_nomination%29&direction=next&oldid=72714391.

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