Intertextuality: Hypertext, Media in media, Metafiction, References to literary works, Transmedia, Wiki, Internet Explorer, HyperCard, Transclusion, Typed link, Project Xanadu, Amigaguide, Knowledge management system, Source tracking, Memex, Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 114. Chapters: Hypertext, Media in media, Metafiction, References to literary works, Transmedia, Wiki, Internet Explorer, HyperCard, Transclusion, Typed link, Project Xanadu, Amigaguide, Knowledge management system, Source tracking, Memex, Wikipedia, References to Hamlet, Netscape, Copyright aspects of hyperlinking and framing, As We May Think, List of metafictional works, Henry Jenkins, Adaptive educational hypermedia, History of hypertext, Fragment identifier, NLS, ENQUIRE, Inline linking, Object hyperlinking, Agnieszka's Dowry, Enfilade, The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project, Hypertext fiction, References to Ophelia, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, Mise en abyme, XLink, Authoring of adaptive hypermedia, Literatronica, Hyperland, Interactive novel, Backlink, Victory Garden, Hypertext Editing System, Collision, Oracle Media Objects, Transmedia storytelling, File Retrieval and Editing System, List of fictional works using settings created by other artists, Lance Weiler, KMS, Methods of website linking, Tommy Pallotta, Afternoon, a story, Patchwork Girl, Knowledge Navigator, Microcontent, MFG.com, Tinderbox, NoteCards, Anchor text, Hypergraphy, Tumbler, Homage, Machinima Island, FrameNet, Symbolics Document Examiner, Historiographic metafiction, ZigZag, Apple Media Tool, Inter-Activa, Book A Novel, Elfland catacombs, Click here, Transmediation, Timeline of hypertext technology, IPer, Intermedia, Fat link, Hyperwords, Electronic Document System, Literary Machines, ZOG, Collapsus, Yellow arrow, Purple Numbers, Direct download link, Waxweb, Primal scene, The Interactive Encyclopedia System, Internal link, Grafedia, StretchText, Metafilm, Transactional Link, Docuverse, WinPlus, Problem-Oriented Medical Information System, QuarkImmedia, Link inventory, Metafictional video games, Plink, Organic linking, Screen hotspot, Metatextuality, Click path. Excerpt: Wikipedia ( or -i--dee-¿) is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 19 million articles (over 3.7 million in English) 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 90,000 active contributors. As of July 2011, there were editions of Wikipedia in 282 languages. It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, ranking around seventh among all websites on Alexa and having 365 million readers. Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined the name Wikipedia, which is a portmanteau of wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's departure from the expert-driven style of encyclopedia building and the large presence of unacademic content has often been noted. When Time magazine recognized You as its Person of the Year for 2006, acknowledging the accelerating success of online collaboration and interaction by millions of users around the world, it cited Wikipedia as one of several examples of Web 2.0 services, along with YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook. Some have noted the importance of Wikipedia not only as an encyclopedic reference but also as a frequently updated news resource because of how quickly articles about recent events appear. Students have been assigned to write Wikipedia articles as an exercise in cle...