Did you know you can have Wikipedia – the all inclusive, all knowing, unofficial central source of all information on the internet  – on your own pc? *

Neither did we. Just imagine how handy this could be next time your internet connection drops for the umpteenth time and you’ll still have your own local version of Wikipedia available.

Hadlee Simons from iafrica’s cooltech has all the information you need.

* Never heard of Wikipedia?

Wikipedia (ⁱ/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or ⁱ/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ wik-i-pee-dee-ə) is a free, collaboratively edited, and multilingual Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 22 million articles (over 4 million in English alone) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and it has about 100,000 regularly active contributors. As of August 2012, there are editions of Wikipedia in 285 languages. It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, ranking sixth globally among all websites on Alexa and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide.

Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.Sanger coined the name Wikipedia, which is a portmanteau of wiki (a type of collaborative website, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning “quick”) and encyclopedia.

(SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA of course!)

Het jy geweet jy kan Wikipedia – die allesomvattende, alwetende bron van alle nie-amptelike inligting op die internet – aflaai op jou rekenaar? *

Ons ook nie! Dink net hoe handig kan dit wees as jou internet weer nukkerig is en jy jou eie weergawe van Wikipedia binne bereik het.

Hadlee Simons van cooltech by iafrica het al die inligting wat jy nodig het.

*Nog nooit van Wikipedia gehoor nie?

Wikipedia (ⁱ/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or ⁱ/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ wik-i-pee-dee-ə) is ‘n gratis, gesamentlik geredigeerde, en veeltalige internet-ensiklopedie, ondersteun deur die nie-winsgewende  Wikimedia Foundation. Die meer as 22 miljoen artikels (meer as 4 miljoen in Engels) is saam geskryf deur vrywilligers van regoor die wêreld. Feitlik al Wikipedia se artikels kan geredigeer word deur enigiemand wat toegang tot die webwerf het en dit het ongeveer 100,000 aktiewe, gereelde bydraers. Vanaf Augustus 2012 is daar weergawes van Wikiepedia in 285 tale. Dit het die grootste en mees populêre verwysingswerk op die internet geword, word globaal as nommer 6 gelys van alle webwerwe op Alexa en het `n beraamde  365 miljoen lesers wêreldwyd.

Wikipedia is in Januarie  2001 bekendgestel deur Jimmy Wales en Larry Sanger. Sanger het die naam Wikipedia, wat `n samevoeging is van wiki (a type of collaborative website, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning “quick”) en ensiklopedie, uitgedink.

(BRON: WIKIPEDIA natuurlik!)

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