Thursday, July 23, 2009

THE GREATEST FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA, WIKIPEDIA.ORG


Learning online is very good to improve your insight in sort time. You don't have to go to library and search for book that you really need. Now, with internet connection, you just need a second to get what do you want to learn. Don't like searching a book that waste a lot of your time. There is many site which can help you, search engine like google and yahoo, or many free encyclopedia that packed in database. Only type your words and then they will give you information. That's why many people now change their habbit from offline learning to online learning.

But....

You know, there is many scam in internet. You can get many information in a second, but not all information in internet is true. Many site give you no more than scam and hawk. Sometime they attempt to deceive you and try to get your money. Many website has viruses and may hack your computer. But don't worry to much, internet still the best way to online learning.

In online learning, You only choose the best site which can give you trusted information. List that site so you don't have to search it again. I will give you a refer. You will get trusted information. This portal is the greatest online encyclopedia I ever see, Wikipedia.org. You will found all information, history, science, famous people, news, and others more. Let's see wikipedia.org profile first.

Wikipedia (pronounced /ˌwiːkiˈpiːdiə/ or /ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/) is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project. The name "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative Web site) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information.

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. Anyone with internet access can make changes to Wikipedia articles. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites, attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009. There are more than 75,000 active contributors working on more than 13,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of today, there are 2,970,646 articles in English. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia. (See also: Wikipedia:Statistics.)

Visitors do not need specialized qualifications to contribute. Wikipedia's intent is to have articles that cover existing knowledge, not create new knowledge (original research). This means that people of all ages and cultural and social backgrounds can write Wikipedia articles. Most of the articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. Anyone is welcome to add information, cross-references, or citations, as long as they do so within Wikipedia's editing policies and to an appropriate standard. Substandard or disputed information is subject to removal. Users need not worry about accidentally damaging Wikipedia when adding or improving information, as other editors are always around to advise or correct obvious errors, and Wikipedia's software is carefully designed to allow easy reversal of editorial mistakes.

Because Wikipedia is an ongoing work to which, in principle, anybody can contribute, it differs from a paper-based reference source in important ways. In particular, older articles tend to be more comprehensive and balanced, while newer articles more frequently contain significant misinformation, unencyclopedic content, or vandalism. Users need to be aware of this to obtain valid information and avoid misinformation that has been recently added and not yet removed (see Researching with Wikipedia for more details). However, unlike a paper reference source, Wikipedia is continually updated, with the creation or updating of articles on topical events within seconds, minutes, or hours, rather than months or years for printed encyclopedias.


You know, it's not easy to be wikipedia.org contributor. Your information will be selected carefully. They choose only trusted information and not contain business. It's okay to give information about company, but not advertise in wikipedia.org. I know that because my boss has submitted article and very difficult if that article for business to approved. It has very good, many, and trusted information there. I think this site is very good site in online learning.