One of the more widely known and non-commercial examples of crowdsourcing
in the online world is Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org), an online
encyclopaedia offering more than three million articles in the English language
version alone. Created and maintained by volunteers, thousands of articles
are added weekly and edited by a global community of students, professorsand everyday experts around the world. This is not just an example of a crowd
creating a pool of information, but also a community taking ownership of a
project by ensuring information is accurate and within the code of conduct
required.