Search! What do you do to get some good information, which you really don't know? Maybe you will go to the Google or Yahoo search. After that you will definitely see in the top of your search, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is the magic of the Wikipedia website. Just type a single word and you will find thousands of the pieces of best information about that single word. Mostly people are using this website to find some articles. This is the best way to find some articles online.
Wikipedia is a big name in the world of the Internet’s encyclopedias. There are many benefits to accessing this encyclopedia. First, Wikipedia is good, because it’s totally free to access. Next, Wikipedia is easy to access for anyone. Last, Wikipedia is one of the most popular encyclopedias of the Internet.
First, Wikipedia is good, because it’s totally free to access. People who have some knowledge about a particular topic can go through the Wikipedia and post their article online on Wikipedia, because it’s free to access. For example, people who don't have money are not able to pay money for encyclopedia websites to post their article online, so people can access this one for free and they can get the benefits of showing their view and ideas. Furthermore, every person can get the free article from this website. According to Meredith Byers (2008), in the month of December 2006, around 38 million people got through the English edition of this site; it’s free to operate, and it’s very easy to find and mostly it comes on the top of the Google searches pages. For example, the Lexis Nexis database website charges thousands of dollars to access the website. Ordinary people can’t afford this amount, so they can’t get good information without money, but people can use Wikipedia and get the required information totally free. Free accessing of a website attracts more people to use it.
Next, Wikipedia is easy to access for anyone. It’s very easy to access, because people don’t have time to spend an hour searching the articles only, so Wikipedia is very fast and easy to access. People can type just a word for articles which they want to search for and they can get the lot of articles related to that search. For instance, if a student is searching from the article about The Indian Festivals, the student will get hundreds of festivals of India and also about its history, religions, manners, ceremony, specialty and much more. Students also find some good references related to that article. Moreover, anyone can write and edit any articles in Wikipedia at any time. “Wikipedia is an encyclopedia compiled by the voluntary contributions of hundreds of writers and editors. Anyone can write an article and post it to the Wikipedia: anyone else can come along later and edit the article. It’s kind of open, voluntary, work in progress. As such, it’s the most up-to-date encyclopedia you’ll find” (Lengel, 2006, para. 6). People have an easy way to search for their articles by Wikipedia.
Last, Wikipedia is one of the most popular encyclopedias of the Internet; if people search in Google or Yahoo, mostly Wikipedia will appear on the top of the research page. That means it’s very popular anyone people. There is too much information about the articles in Wikipedia. According to Nicole Martin (2008), every day 7% of all Internet users visit the Wikipedia site, which is. Day by day people use this website and its demand goes up. In addition, people using this website for their personal information. For example, some people don’t know the history of the United States of America, so they would like to know and they go to this website and they find some good information about their search. These people tell other people or send a link to them and they also use it for their personal use; in the end Wikipedia becomes more popular among these people.
In conclusion, Wikipedia is good, is easy to access for anyone, and is one of the most popular encyclopedias of the Internet. Wikipedia is the best source to search for articles online. People should use this website for their use. They can use it to get the main ideas or try to write in their own words or ideas for their academic papers. People also can use references for their research paper, because there are some good articles written by the authors, writers, scientists, doctors, professors, and famous people. People also can good sources to support their ideas about their information.
References
Byers, M. (2007, March 08). Controversy over use of Wikipedia in acadamic papers. The Smith College Sophian. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http://media.www.smithsophian.com/media/storage/paper587/news/2007/03/08/news//Controversy.Over.Use.Of.Wikipedia.In.Academic.Paper.Arrives.At.Smith-2765409.shtml
Lengel, J. (2006, February 07). Teaching with technology. Power to Learn. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http://www.powertolearn.com/articles/teaching_with_technology/article.shtml?ID=12
Martin, N (2008, January 21). Wikipedia clamp down on ‘unreliable’editors. Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/20/wiki120.xml
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