Description

Looking at Wikipedia and beyond this Tippingpoint Labs New Media Life Cycle Analysis considers the future of the crowd-sourced platforms, potential monetization strategies, and offers key recommendations for enterprise application and 
implementation.

According to the New York Times, Wikipedia is one of the top five most visited websites in the world. With more than 330 million readers and three million English articles it is certainly one of the deepest resources on the Internet.
If you’re unfamiliar with Wikipedia, it is a free, web-based collaborative encyclopedia. Basically, users (volunteers) from around the world add and edit content on any topic and, as a group, validate or delete content deemed irrelevant, inaccurate or incorrectly sourced.
Wikipedia launched in 2001 and is the brainchild of Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Today, Wikipedia is the “largest and most popular general reference work on the internet.” (Wikipedia entry for Wikipedia.)