Wikipedia growing fast, now second-largest reference site

Via The Philadelphia Inquirer on philly.com: Wikipedia, the publicly written and edited online encyclopedia, now has more page visitors than About.com and MSN Encarta, according to online measurement company Hitwise. Dictionary.com is the most-visited reference site on the Web, but Wikipedia is growing fast -- Hitwise tracked a jump of 618 percent in the number of site visits since the beginning of 2004.

"Wikipedia offers up editorless editorial, raw content free from the wrought-iron blockades of publishing rejection and the blue pencils of editorial oversight," said the Inquirer.