Wikipedia and Its Impact on Language and Literacy
Wikipedia and Its Impact on Language and Literacy
As many people know, Wikipedia is the most popular and largest Internet encyclopedias in the world. When people want to search something, they may choose to search Wikipedia. The reason for why people prefer Wikipedia may be because it is free, has open-content, and allows volunteers to edit information.
The name Wikipedia comes from Wiki is from Hawaiian word, which means “quick” combined with the word encyclopedia. So, the name highlights the good possibilities of this Internet encyclopedia. Its interface is very simple, not so much the picture, it is particularly fast when people open this Web page and search for the information they want. According to people statistical that Wikipedia has 30 million articles and 287 languages. People can search a lot of information they need and translate to their own language at the first time. This Internet encyclopedia is that volunteers can edit the information on Wikipedia. This policy makes people felt fair, because they are not scholar but they can write something on the encyclopedia. Therefore, Wikipedia makes people’s language and literacy more usability and reliability. In the project I will discuss how Wikipedia impacts language by evaluating its usability and reliability.
First of all, Wikipedia is easy and free and is therefore useful to people. In the article "Wikipedia as Public Scholarship: Communicating Our Impact Online" Rush, Elizabeth K and Sarah J. Tracy says “We reason that Wikipedia is a useful benchmark for online accessibility of public scholarship in that it provides immediate, freely available information to today 's diverse global public seeking online answers to questions and relief from problems.” Rush, Elizabeth K and Sarah J. Tracy use this sentence to show the speed of Wikipedia’s information transfer and influence in the world. Because Wikipedia run fast and popular, people can search the events and information about the philanthropies.
As many people know, Wikipedia is the most popular and largest Internet encyclopedias in the world. When people want to search something, they may choose to search Wikipedia. The reason for why people prefer Wikipedia may be because it is free, has open-content, and allows volunteers to edit information.
The name Wikipedia comes from Wiki is from Hawaiian word, which means “quick” combined with the word encyclopedia. So, the name highlights the good possibilities of this Internet encyclopedia. Its interface is very simple, not so much the picture, it is particularly fast when people open this Web page and search for the information they want. According to people statistical that Wikipedia has 30 million articles and 287 languages. People can search a lot of information they need and translate to their own language at the first time. This Internet encyclopedia is that volunteers can edit the information on Wikipedia. This policy makes people felt fair, because they are not scholar but they can write something on the encyclopedia. Therefore, Wikipedia makes people’s language and literacy more usability and reliability. In the project I will discuss how Wikipedia impacts language by evaluating its usability and reliability.
First of all, Wikipedia is easy and free and is therefore useful to people. In the article "Wikipedia as Public Scholarship: Communicating Our Impact Online" Rush, Elizabeth K and Sarah J. Tracy says “We reason that Wikipedia is a useful benchmark for online accessibility of public scholarship in that it provides immediate, freely available information to today 's diverse global public seeking online answers to questions and relief from problems.” Rush, Elizabeth K and Sarah J. Tracy use this sentence to show the speed of Wikipedia’s information transfer and influence in the world. Because Wikipedia run fast and popular, people can search the events and information about the philanthropies.
Cited: Rush, Elizabeth K., and Sarah J. Tracy. "Wikipedia As Public Scholarship: Communicating Our Impact Online." Journal Of Applied Communication Research 38.3 (2010): 309-315. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 June 2014. Marcia Clemmitt. “Internet Accuracy” Journal of Internet Language. Tue. 11 March 2009.