Wikipedia

Wikipedia
A global community effort for a free, user-generated encylopedia

Started with the English-language version in January 2001 as an expansion of the previous Nupedia, the project soon reached an international nature and involvement. After six years, more than 174 Wikipedias are active around the world; the English version includes almost 3,800,000 entries, the other major ten languages (French, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, etc.) have between 400,000 to 1,355,000 entries — all of them rapidly growing. Each article, and related editing, is written only by volunteers on a variety of subjects – from society and culture to science and technology – and can be enriched and updated at any time. The global success of this initiative is based on its open and collaborative nature, along with the many tools and features gradually introduced in the project, including “featured articles”, the neutral point of view policy, navigation templates, and dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation and arbitration. Despite some controversies about authors’ expertise and credibility, this on-going project has quickly become the symbol of free knowledge sharing and building enabled by the digital era. Structured as a traditional entry-based encyclopedia, Wikipedia is searchable by entry or topic and hypertextual links are extremely used, any time that a word corresponds to an edited entry. All contents can be saved, read and distributed under the GNU GPL license.

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refers to online reference and information services providing proprietary content in the format of simple and concise information in the various fields of knowledge. In many cases, online encyclopedias are the electronic development of pre-existing printed sources, as it is the case with Britannica on-line which is managed by Encyclopedia Britannica, a cultural institution with more than 230 years of experience in gathering and organizing information on thousands of subjects. This category of e-sources emphasizes at its best the hypertextual features of the electronic language by organizing a huge amount of information in a multiple in-depth path of navigation. For most records an abstract, a list of external/internal references and a specific collection of related info and metainfo are usually provided, often on a fee basis.
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The bulletin of the International Political Science Association.
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International Political Science Review
The IPSA Journal, with five issues per year.
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Poznań 2016
The IPSA World Congress of Political Science, July 23-28, 2016.
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Wikipedia

WikipediaA global community effort for a free, user-generated encylopedia