1.  Wikipedia is funded by donations by Pay Pal on the site or businesses who give money to Wikipedia to put articles about their business on Wikipedia.  The Wikipedia Foundation, Wikipedia’s owner, controls the money and decides what to spend it on (slide 10). Funding

2. Sister Projects A number of related projects have sprung up which include: Wiktionary (a free dictionary), Wikibooks (free textbooks), Wikiquote (a free encyclopedia of quotations) and Wikisource (a repository of source texts that are in the public domain). The Wikipedia Foundation also owns Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki. I searched ‘Community’ into Wiktionary and since I cant show pictures on this computer here is what it came up with… Pronunciation▪▪ Audio (US)help, file▪…Audio (US)help file … Is derived from Classical Latin communitas. Noun(plural communities)communities 1.Group of people sharing a common understanding who reveal themselves by using the same language, manners, tradition and law. (see civilization).civilization 2.Commune or residential/religious collective. 3.The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common. 4.(ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other. 5.(Virtual) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes. (see virtual community)virtual community Translations…

3. Wikipedia’s Competitors  There are a number of competitors for Wikipedia but match up to Wikipedia the most famous and biggest free online encyclopedia. Knol is a Google project, it is described by Google as A unit of knowledge and mostly specializes in health and medicine, compared to Wikipedia’s broad and far ranging topics. Knol is founded and led by Google’s Udi Manber and created on December 13th, 2007. Yahoo is another competitor, which is very famous. One of the things it does is that it answers questions. Here is one such question… Resolved Question: Am I too old to go trick or treating? I'm almost 17.? Best Answer - Chosen by AskerHeres the deal..I am 31 and now have to find someone's kid to take with me so I don't look like a weirdo trick or treating. I love it though and don't think there should be an age restriction! As long as you dress up and are respectful I think its totally fine. When I do give out candy, I have to say I hate all these older teenagers who come to the door without a costume (or some cheesy thing like street clothes and a fake knife) and have an attitude like the world owes them candy. Again if you are dressed up and enjoying it go for it

4. Here is a 6 step way to making your own article The ultimate aim of an article is to achieve ‘featured article’ status. This means it will appear on the top articles list and will be recommended to the public to consult from. Featured articles are marked ( ), A-class articles with ( ), Good articles with ( ), B- class articles with ( ) and C-class articles with ( ). Here is a small selection of top articles listed in the Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded webpage. There 1000+ articles that have achieved this high status. Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded

6. This page asks you what you want to write the article about.

7. This page explains that most people just not important enough for mention, and names a few types of people that could be mentioned

8. This page explains that your article must have good sources where you get your information. It lists some good sources.

9. This page explains that your article must not infringe copyrights. Also the article must explain why the person is notable. Lastly it says the article must be neutral, this means it is not biased to any party.

10. FINISHED!!! Your article will now be reviewed by a registered editor before being allowed on the site.