Wikipedia american idol

The widely popular TV show American Idol is becoming a cultural icon. Many fans and devotees of the show have established and are maintaining the web pages on Wikipedia that concern American Idol, the shows and the contestants. It is surprising how detailed the main page is, but having recognized this, it becomes apparent that almost every contestant has his own Wiki page.

Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia on the internet which is being kept by users and experiencing wider popularity every day. Because of the possibility to be changed and supplemented by any user, a vast knowledge base has been created, much more complex and detailed than any other available encyclopedia, like Encarta or Britannica (there are even Wiki pages about those two). The accuracy and spam is being kept out by an army of volunteers and editors. The Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization was established in 2002 in San Francisco as the umbrella body of Wikipedia and all related projects; they also own all the copyrights and other rights.

American Idol is being featured with vast information on all seasons, providing all relevant information. Links to separate pages for all the contestants are provided; the singers’ pages are as large as there is actually anything to be written. Kelly Clarkson has a bigger page than EJay Day; David Cook’s page is changing almost daily. There is plenty of information with links to outside sources, WebPages and artists’ own sites, MySpace pages and industry connections. Once an interested individual enters Wiki and starts browsing, it is very hard to go anywhere else, it seems like all the information available is right there. The main page of American Idol has over two hundred inside links to related pages and over sixty links to outside sources. With all the links having continuing links to other sources, the American Idol Wiki is becoming a huge database by itself. For instance, the already mentioned Wiki page of Kelly Clarkson has over seventy reference pages with a separate Wiki page for her concert tours, discography and awards. It gets really vast, once you’ve found out that there is a separate Wiki page for every American Idol season. So if you are interested in American Idol and you would like to find out everything there is to know about the most popular American reality competition show, then instead of digging through thousands of more or less relevant pages spawned by a Google search, simply start with Wikipedia. Chances are all of your questions will be answered right there.