Paradigm in Wikipedia?

I. Overview and schematic layout “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.”1 There is little doubt that Wikipedia is one of the world’s most influential websites today – and its sphere of influence is set to grow in days to come.2 The evidence for this is strong. As of June 2010, Wikipedia is the internet’s 6th most popular website (by virtue of the Alexa Traffic Rank),3 and it is also the most popular “general reference ” site in cyberspace,4 with more than 3 million articles in the English language edition.5 It has been and will continue to be the flagship of Web 2.0,6 with every single edit being potentially scrutinised by a global audience, and it is well on its way to becoming the world’s largest repository of knowledge and most consulted resource.7 Anyone who has any decent amount of experience using the internet will know that searching for anything on the internet via popular search engines such as Google, Bing or Yahoo! will almost invariably result in Wikipedia entries being ranked among the top 5 hits;8 as a result