Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a community project – a carefully planned, but flexible group effort – to create a wide range of useful and authoritative content on the web. Anyone can write for Wikipedia. Anyone can make changes to existing articles. If I retired today, one of the things I woud do (among many) is throw some time and effort the various wikipedia projects.
If you are interested in joining this community here are some links that will help you better understand the project:
The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
How to edit a Wikipedia page
Wikipedia Help contents
Wikipedia editing tutorial
How to write a great Wikipedia article
Wikipedia manual of style
Here is an article discussing the debate over Wikipedia’s usefulness and authority.