Why using Wikipedia?!

First of all, what is Wikipedia?

"Wikipedia is a free content encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by contributors from all around the world."

It is a free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. That's means NO ONE owns the articles in Wikipedia. Anyone can simple "click" on the "edit" buton on each article and do modification. Lots of people are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes an hour. That's why it is so powerful, coz a article will be expand by different user that includes huge & rich information.

Wikipedia is not only just an encyclopedia, dictionary but also a search engine that supports multiple languages around the world. I will show you how to use of Wikipedia in next section.

Thanks for Jason Landry introduce that web site to me.

How to Use

• Launch to the Wikipedia homepage (you can find it on my Favorite Links)
• Search something on the left hand side, for example "Vancouver".
• A detail article talking about Vancouver is displayed.
• You can find that there are many hyper links in this article that will redirect you to different articles on Wikipedia and give you detail explanation of each unknown term you may not know.
• If you find some information are not correct or not sufficient, either you can do modification by clicking "Edit This Page" tab on top of the article, or you can create a new article with additional information that will link back to specified term(s) in Vancouver article.
• Clicking on "History" tab on top of page to view who modified that article before.
• Clicking on "Whats link here" on the left hand side in toolbox shows you all the hyper links on this article to save you time in searching relative information of Vancouver.
• If you don't understand the Language describe on this article, NO PROBLEM! Select a language you understand from "in other language" section on the left hand side, for instance, "中文 (Chinese)", you will see a full detail Chinese article that explain Vancouver on the screen (note: you can select simplify or tradition format).
• If you cannot find your language for that article. Great! it is your chance to create a new version of that article with your language.

Is it fun, huh?! You can search almost everything. It is not like a search engine, coz you participate to create content, and the information just growing bigger and bigger.

Henry

(Note: forgive me if you don't understand what I'm talking about, coz English is not my fisrt language, yea... and the typo)