Wikipedia

[Ewan]

I'm sure a lot of you know this site, but for those who don't, this site is one of the best free reference sites around, has pretty much everything.

http://wikipedia.org/

(The wikibooks section is pretty good for students)

http://wikimediafoundation.org/ has some of the other stuff they do

[NaiLed]

agreed. i found it a few months ago when i switched to FireFox. It has a Quick Searches menu in the Bookmarks menu. i use it for pretty much everything i need to find information about.

[za gophar]

sweet, im gonna use that hardcore for a paper due tomorrow.

[Send]

thats a seriously flawed system, someone can just come in and delete all the information in one click

[Dameon Angell]

if you use trillion, it has a bunch of wikipedia definitions from words in your coversations (if you turn it on), its kinda fun.

[Ewan]

thats a seriously flawed system, someone can just come in and delete all the information in one click

Crap I didn't reliase that would work, I editted a whole page or so about "Peacemakers" and now it's just "aaaaaaaaaasadddddaaaaaaa" I was expecting it to ask me for a password.

EDIT: Just got a message saying if I continue to vandalise pages, I will be banned. I apologised.

[Spybreak!]

if you use trillion, it has a bunch of wikipedia definitions from words in your coversations (if you turn it on), its kinda fun.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

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The joys of open source lol

[iNgeNfyRe]

Crap I didn't reliase that would work, I editted a whole page or so about "Peacemakers" and now it's just "aaaaaaaaaasadddddaaaaaaa" I was expecting it to ask me for a password.

EDIT: Just got a message saying if I continue to vandalise pages, I will be banned. I apologised.

damn you

[Jerome Scuggs]

thats a seriously flawed system, someone can just come in and delete all the information in one click

They store old "edits" meaning you can click an un-edit a page if it's been vandalized

[Bigwig]

not quite on topic. but i use dict.org because i hate dictionary.com

[Tone]

Heres another good resource

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

[Jeansi]

Wikipedia just signed this huge-ass contract with Google a few weeks ago.

[cundor]

Wikipedia is great man. I use it like...every day to look things up for my lesson plans (mostly history though).

[Suzie-Q.]

if you use trillion, it has a bunch of wikipedia definitions from words in your coversations (if you turn it on), its kinda fun.

"wanker" wasnt it? or was it "tosser" ^-^

[Subjugation]

agreed. i found it a few months ago when i switched to FireFox. It has a Quick Searches menu in the Bookmarks menu. i use it for pretty much everything i need to find information about.

What he said.