1. By John, Paisan and Tenzin

2. Past Formally launched on Jan 15 th 2001 Created as a feeder for Nupedia – Nupedia had extensive peer-review – Nupedia was only contributed to by scholar- volunteers September 9 th 2007 : passes 2 million article mark. Making it the largest encyclopedia ever assembled.

3. Present 2,645,714 articles info as of 12/3/08 264 languages 8,410,318 users Wikipedia has immense cultural impact Only non-profit website in the top 10 most visited website It has been used in books, academic studies and court cases Anyone could edit it

4. Future Predictions 10 years: the website as we know it will become obsolete or severely changed 25 years: Wikipedia will only be able to be modified by a group of intelligent researchers; the interface will be much more awesome 50 years: anyone can upload their entire brain to a Wikipediaesque database