What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers; its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet. Wikipedia is an online free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has described Wikipedia as "an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest quality to every single person on the planet in their own language." Wikipedia exists to bring knowledge to everyone who seeks it. Wikipedia's name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Its primary servers are in Tampa, Florida, with additional servers in Amsterdam and Seoul. Basically Wikipedia is an internet Encyclopedia that has billions of information on it that people can use. Majority of wikipedia information is legit. Also the amazing part about wikipedia is that it allows you to edit whatever you want. So the users have some responsibility for wikipedia also.
Wikipedia's English edition was launched on January 15, 2001, as a complement to Nupedia, an expert-written and now defunct encyclopedia. The project is currently operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization created by Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia has approximately 7.2 million articles in 251 languages, 1.7 million of which are in the English edition. It has steadily risen in popularity since its inception, and currently ranks among the top fifteen most-visited websites worldwide.
Before being introduce to it this semester, I had no idea what wikipedia was. As I wrote my first Blog every, i found it kind of difficult to find information on what I needed. But once I saw wikipedia, I used it constantly. Wikipedia really Helps people to understand what they are looking for. Not only does it give you definitions of a term or subject, but it also discuss everything that lead to it and examples of it.
As the semester went on, I got really comfortable with wikipedia. My blogs continuously got better because I knew exactly where to find the information that i needed. Wikipedia is a great tool and is helpful with finding anything that anyone is looking for. The benefit of wikipedia is that it is a source of information. Even thought some articles on wikipedia may be biased or inaccurate, most of its articles are more helpful than majority of those other sites.
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers; its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet. Wikipedia is an online free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has described Wikipedia as "an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest quality to every single person on the planet in their own language." Wikipedia exists to bring knowledge to everyone who seeks it. Wikipedia's name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Its primary servers are in Tampa, Florida, with additional servers in Amsterdam and Seoul. Basically Wikipedia is an internet Encyclopedia that has billions of information on it that people can use. Majority of wikipedia information is legit. Also the amazing part about wikipedia is that it allows you to edit whatever you want. So the users have some responsibility for wikipedia also.
Wikipedia's English edition was launched on January 15, 2001, as a complement to Nupedia, an expert-written and now defunct encyclopedia. The project is currently operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization created by Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia has approximately 7.2 million articles in 251 languages, 1.7 million of which are in the English edition. It has steadily risen in popularity since its inception, and currently ranks among the top fifteen most-visited websites worldwide.
Before being introduce to it this semester, I had no idea what wikipedia was. As I wrote my first Blog every, i found it kind of difficult to find information on what I needed. But once I saw wikipedia, I used it constantly. Wikipedia really Helps people to understand what they are looking for. Not only does it give you definitions of a term or subject, but it also discuss everything that lead to it and examples of it.
As the semester went on, I got really comfortable with wikipedia. My blogs continuously got better because I knew exactly where to find the information that i needed. Wikipedia is a great tool and is helpful with finding anything that anyone is looking for. The benefit of wikipedia is that it is a source of information. Even thought some articles on wikipedia may be biased or inaccurate, most of its articles are more helpful than majority of those other sites.
The extra credit assignment was a little confusing at first. But after playing around with the wikipedia site, I figured out how to post articles and it was very interesting to see how people edit my article.
References-
Wikipedia, Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia, 2 May 2007, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
