Wikipedia was launched 0n Jan, 2001 but it took 5 years to reach 1 million article milestone, but the 2nd millionth article count took a small time lap when compared to the 1st million, it took just 12 month to reach the 2nd million article, can you imagine the amount of manpower and their info brain created this milestone. during 2004-2007 the site analytics reveals that the active users [Note: Active Users] on the site increased from few thousand to more than 3,00,000 [says Wikipedia] they also said that the next million article after the rapid 12 month spree was not like the previous one, because it took 2 years to reach and is still growing, on an average there were over 2200 article added every single day, but after July 2007 the count reduced to 1800 [Recession Effect?].  However the active user of Wikipedia is static.  The chart given below explains this

Wikipedia is growing day by day, as expected a team from California (parc) [by Ed H. Chi] researched about how possible is this and on what pace the articles are growing.  In order to build a better collaborative software they(the Augmented Social cognition group) digging deep to know what is actually happening on this online encyclopedia, They have downloaded the entire website, the site weigh heavily even after applying some compression algorithm, the total weight is 8TB(8 terabyte).  They also discovered there is some stable group of high  level editors has increasingly responsible fro controlling the articles in the site.

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Here is some crispy news of printed version of Wikipedia

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There is no doubt schools soon refer Wikipedia for their lessons instead of books, Can any one imagine where Wikipedia ends?

Here are some tips to shop smartly, Teach these tips to your children.

• One fun way is to give your child some money for his first shot at shopping, this is not recommended if your children is younger than 9.
• Accompany your child to the shop but stay out of his way
• Have a checklist with your child and make sure he understand that.
• The shopping money you have is under budget, so be sure about your purchase and it must be equal to or less than this amount. ask your kid to ensure this.
• Make an agenda about your shopping and list of shopping items before starting on your necessity
• There are several manufacturer for a product, make your kid to clear about the cost and quality of the product and purchase it.
• Ask for discount if the product has some offer’s, teach your kid to ask the discount, some shop’s ignore the discounts.
• Put what you haven’t spent (savings) in a piggy bank. the next time while you shopping you will have a little extra!

So parents this is my advise to you to Purchase Products while shopping with your kids.  Teach them wisely

Here is the List of Mobile Telephone Number Codes of India, based on the Circles divided by TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) the COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India) classified the Mobile Switching Centre (MSC) codes. In India the mobile number has 10 digits and here is it marked as

01 23 456789

00 ZZ NNNNNN

0 – The operator code

Z – The Zone Code

N – Subscriber Number

We Update the data periodically, the data in the excel search sheet below is the last update released by COAI on January 2009.  Also we are updating the data by periodically monitoring the COAI MSC Code Updates on the site.

Based on the MSC code provided by COAI we have designed an Excel sheet so that you can easily access the telephone numbers on which circle (state/city) they belongs to.

If you need to find a number for which operator and the Mobile Cirle that number belongs to,  just enter the mobile phone number you want to find in the spread sheet and hit ‘Enter’, In the Cell Mobile Phone Operator it shows the Cell Phone Operator and in the Next Cell it shows the Mobile Phone Circle range for the phone number you have entered.

Mobile telephone Number Phone Code

All the entire Data are mentioned here