According to Byers’ article, “Approximately 38 milion people visited the English language version of the site in December 2006. Wikipedia is also easy to find; it frequently appears at the top of many Google searches and access in completely free.” Wikipedia is very famous and a lot of people use it. “It is already the ninth most popular Web site in the US” (Jason, 2007). There is a lot of useful information on Wikipedia, so we should let more people use Wikipedia. More people need to use Wikipedia to get more information to help them.
The basic reason people need to use Wikipedia is that it is useful and powerful. Students need to write a lot of papers and most of them require a long time to think. At the end, they still do not have enough good idea to write this paper, so now it is time to use Wikipedia; they can get some information. “Seven per cent of all internet users now visit the site every day” (Nicole, 2008, para.13). Why do a lot of people use it? Because it has a lot of good information and it is very powerful, so a lot of people choose it. “Middlebury College, a prestigious liberal arts school in Vermont, recently announced that its history department had banned the citation of Wikipedia for history papers and exams” (Meredith, 2007). It told us again that Wikipedia is very useful.
It is very easy to use it, as a website for people to communicate and argue the points. People put their ideas online and other people read them and can argue whether it is right or not. People put their experience online to help other people. So we can make fewer mistakes. “Wikipedia is an encyclopedia compiled by the voluntary contributions of thousands 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 is a kind of open, voluntary, work in progress. As such, it’s the most up-to-date encyclopedia you will find” (Teaching Jim, 2006, para.6). It is the website for everyone and it is very easy to use.
Now Wikipedia is very famous in the Internet world; “It is already the ninth most popular Web site in the USA” (Jason, 2007). Why can it be so famous in such a short time? Because you can find everything here, there is a free space for any knowledge and articles. You can do what you want, to post your information and get information. People always want to use famous things, like buy cloth you want to Tommy, so because it is famous, a lot of people use Wikipedia and make it stronger and stronger; you can study a lot of things from this Web site; it is not only useful and powerful, it already looks like a library and school for anyone who wants to study.
It is very clear that people need to use more Wikipedia. There is good information and knowledge that can help people a lot. Now a lot of people begin to use it. So now we need more Web sites like Wikipedia to help more people to study; this is an online school and free for everyone. People can take the information to study, so it is a 24 hour teacher and school near you. And we know the more the better, so giving more information is good for everyone.
References
Meredith, B. (2007 March 8). Controversy over use of Wikipedia in academic papers arrives at Smith. Sophian Smith clooege. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http:// media. www. Smithsophian.com
Jason, W. (January 22, 2007). Wikipedia Wisdom, Valley Vanguard. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http://www.svsu.edu
Jim, L. (2006, February 7). Teaching with Technology. Retrieved April 23, 2008 from http://www/powertolearn.com
David, P. (February 2008). Wikipedia and the new curriculum. Science Progress. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http://www. Scienceprogress.org.
Nicole, M. (9/20/2008). Wikipedia clamps down on ‘ Unreliable’ editors. Telegraphs.co.uk/ Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http://www.telegraph.co.uk
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