Using The Wikipedia Encyclopedia More Productively

Wikipedia, the largest public encyclopaedia on the Internet that anyone can edit, was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. There are now over 2.4 million articles in the English edition of Wikipedia contributed by people from across the globe.

The site needs no introduction. Wikipedia pages pop on the front page of Google for almost every search and no wonder, it is also one of the largest trafficked sites on the Internet with 55 million unique visitors per month from US alone.

Using Wikipedia is simple, Just type something in the Wikipedia search box, hit Go and you are automatically transported to the corresponding article. If there isn’t a direct Wikipedia page for your search term, you get to see a list of other Wikipedia pages that mention your search term.

Here we look at different ways in which you can use Wikipedia more productively.