What is a wiki? Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly. Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself. Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users. Historical Note. The first ever wiki site was created for the Portland Pattern Repository in 1995. That site now hosts tens of thousands of pages. This is the Day of the Internet. Arose on the initiative of the Association of Internet Users (AUI) to which are added, then other organizations. All up the committee for promotion and invite all of society to promote activities and events on the occasion of this anniversary. The objective is to disseminate and promote Internet use across the company and ensure that Agnes Day Internet. Arose on the initiative of the Association of Internet Users (AUI) to which are added, then other organizations. All up the committee for promotion and invite all of society to promote activities and events on the occasion of this anniversary. Wikipedia, the marathon is a Department of Education of the Catalan centers aimed at primary and secondary schools and the education community in general for the Internet Day on 17 May. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, and Internet access available in 250 languages to laborativament produced by some of its own readers. Anyone can modify, translate, or create new articles by following some simple rules of style and respect the rules of good behavior. Is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to offer free knowledge to everyone in the world. Responsible for the maintenance, development and distribution, with no advertising. Wikipedia is the Spanish edition of Wikipedia. Was established on 16 March 2001 and for two months, was the only one with articles on non-English language. Has, in English, approximately some 60,000 items (the middle of May 2007), whereas in English there are 1,706,000, 466,000 in French, Spanish or 216,000 in a minority language such as Finnish , 106,466. Currently, Wikipedia is in English in the language of more than 10,000 entries. Marathon Wikipedia tries to present in the form of a challenge, passing the 100,000 articles written in English in 2007. Objectives of the Marathon * To introduce students to the Wikipedia encyclopedia in English. * Knowing the dimensions of this collaborative project of international scope. * Access is through the active creation or improvement of new articles. * Overcoming the 100,000 articles in English language from Wikipedia in 2007. * Promote the use of Internet to schools. Aimed at * Schools and educational services * Faculty and students * The educational community

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)

He was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; his parents died when he was young. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. After spending a short period at the University of Virginia and briefly attempting a military career, Poe parted ways with the Allans. Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882)

He was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s,and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, providing logical explanation for the diversity of life.At Edinburgh University Darwin neglected medical studies to investigate marine invertebrates, then the University of Cambridge encouraged a passion for natural science. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell’s uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author. Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin investigated the transmutation of species and conceived his theory of natural selection in 1838. Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research and his geological work had priority. He was writing up his theory in 1858 when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication of both of their theories.His 1859 book On the Origin of Species established evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, he examined earthworms and their effect on soil.In recognition of Darwin’s pre-eminence, he was one of only five 19th-century UK non-royal personages to be honoured by a state funeral, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac N.