Wikipedia (i/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or i/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ WIK-i-PEE-dee-ə) is a free, collaboratively edited and multilingual Internet encyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 22 million articles (over 0 million in English alone) 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 100,000 regularly active contributors. As of June 2012, there are editions of Wikipedia in 285 languages. It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet, ranking sixth globally among all websites on Alexa and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide. It is estimated that Wikipedia receives 2.7 billion monthly pageviews from the United States alone.
Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined the name Wikipedia, which is a portmanteau of wiki (a type of collaborative website, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's departure from the expert-driven style of encyclopedia building and the presence of a large body of unacademic content have received extensive attention in print media. In its 2006 Person of the Year article, Time magazine recognized the rapid growth of online collaboration and interaction by millions of people around the world. It cited Wikipedia as an example, in addition to YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook. Wikipedia has also been praised as a news source because of how quickly articles about recent events appear. Students have been assigned to write Wikipedia articles as an exercise in clearly and succinctly explaining difficult concepts to an uninitiated audience.
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales ( /ˈdoʊnəl ˈweɪlz/; born August 7, 1966) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, where he attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school, then earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance. While in graduate school, he taught at two universities, but left before completing a PhD in order to take a job in finance and later worked as the research director of a Chicago futures and options firm. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a male-oriented web portal featuring entertainment and adult content. The company would provide the initial funding for the peer-reviewed free encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003) and its successor, Wikipedia.
On January 15, 2001, with Larry Sanger and others, Wales launched Wikipedia, a free, open content encyclopedia that enjoyed rapid growth and popularity, and as Wikipedia’s public profile grew, he became the project’s promoter and spokesman. He is historically cited as a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has disputed the "co-" designation, declaring himself the sole founder. Wales serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization he helped establish to operate Wikipedia, holding its board-appointed "community founder" seat. In 2004, he co-founded Wikia, a for-profit wiki-hosting service. His role in creating Wikipedia, which has become the world’s largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in its 2006 list of the world’s most influential people.
Edward John "Eddie" Izzard (born 7 February 1962) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. His comedy style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime. He had a starring role in the television series The Riches as Wayne Malloy and has appeared in many motion pictures such as Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Mystery Men, Shadow of the Vampire, The Cat's Meow, Across the Universe, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and Valkyrie. He is also the voice of Nigel in the 2006 animated film The Wild and Miles Axlerod in the 2011 Disney/Pixar animated film Cars 2.
He has cited his main comedy role model as Monty Python, and John Cleese once referred to him as the "Lost Python". In 2009, he completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief in spite of having no prior history of long distance running. He is also known for his transvestism. He has won numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his comedy special Dress to Kill, in 2000. Izzard's web site won the Yahoo People's Choice Award and earned the Webby Award.
I don't want to see I'll drown so deep
I can't even stand myself
I don't wanna fall down and spit at me
I just wanna tell myself I'm awake yeah
I don't wanna sleep my eyes still shut
Don't you wanna down on me
I don't let anyone tell me this pain is for free
Oh oh I am not awake yeah
Take
You know I'm not still awake
Yeah
Take
You know I'm not still awake
Open up your black hole I'll feel you from the inside
It teaches me to fear me I know
Let it be a lesson you know you've been warned, oh oh
I am not awake yeah
Take
You know I'm not still awake
Yeah
Take
You know I'm not still awake
I don't wanna feel this way
I don't wanna feel this way
I don't wanna feel this way
I don't wanna feel
I don't wanna feel this way
I don't wanna feel this way
I don't wanna feel this way
I don't wanna feel
Don't you feel ashamed to peel back my skin
And hide me away
I don't mind if you say so
I am not awake yeah
Take
You know, I'm not still awake
Yeah
Take
You know I'm not still awake
I'm awake
I'm awake
I'm awake
Egypt, Crypt of my soul
Drive me into your past
Once you were the culture of all
But now you drown in dust
A thousand years of memories
Flowing like tears for me
Oh Egypt, awake for me
The Gods recall you, somehow
Wake, wake
Reincarnate
Egypt, Crypt of my soul
Drive me into your past
Once you were the culture of all
But now you drown in dust
A thousand years of memories
Flowing like tears for me
Egypt, awake now
The Gods are coming
[Marcus N. Colon]
In God, we trust, do we really mean that?
God, bless America, I think he already has!
This that, this that, I think you need a new excuse, out with the morals, in with a budget plan, I don't think that it's any use.
Great is this country's foundation, but there is an absence of responsibility, respond to conviction, you Godless pagan fools, repentance is the answer, in this nation's darkening hour.
Rights to dogs, rights to gays, rights to a murderer, and their detestable ways, powerful are sacred cows, of church and state, but what of Jesus Lordship and His place.
A.c.l.u. ha!
You're so sick and lost, lobbyist buying, on the hill, bribes for votes is the cost.
[Solo Bob]
This that, this that, I think you new a new excuse, out with the morals, in with liberal man, I don't think it's any use.
God, help us, that's what we should say, could someone send us, some missionaries, before this country stands at judgment day.
Whoa, oh, I hit the jackpot, you better bet while I can
Right now my hand is red hot, hotter than a fryin' pan
Gonna throw all my chips in the pot 'cause I've got a winning hand
Whoa, oh, I hit the jackpot 'cause I'm your loving man
At the rainbow's end, there's a pot of gold
Overflowing with riches untold
The clouds have been forming dollar signs
Ever since you've been mine
Oh, oh, I hit the jackpot 'cause I'm your lovin' man
Oh, oh, I hit the jackpot, honey you're my lucky charm
I spin the wheel, baby roll the dice and tug on that old bandit's arm
Gonna take all my winnings downtown, an' buy you a wedding band
Oh, oh, I hit the jackpot 'cause I'm your lovin' man
At the rainbow's end, there's a pot of gold
Overflowing with riches untold
The clouds have been forming dollar signs
Ever since you've been mine
Oh, oh, I hit the jackpot 'cause I'm your lovin' man
Yes sir at the rainbow's end, there's a pot of gold
Overflowing with riches untold
The clouds have been forming dollar signs
Ever since you've been mine
Oh, oh, I hit the jackpot, 'cause I'm your lovin' man