Things you should know about Wikipedia
Do you had a term that you want to know? Or the history from a name or a place? Confirm your main aim is Wikipedia page, the warehouse of world knowledge.
If you are the person who have a big curious, or always thirsty about knowledge in various sector, or only want to search for information to complete your task, possibly one of the most exact site you have to visit is http://www.wikipedia.org.
From the front page of this site indeed appeared simple and was impressed more uninteresting. Only text oceans and few pictures without the game of the comfortable color. Most of the first visitors must be thus thoughtful. However if you have been inside, you will not stop entering and digging more in this site.
Is it true that said some people, Wikipedia is the site that the more we dig in, the more interesting to be investigated, certainly this was only for people who thirsty for knowledges. Because inside there is plenty of web pages contained information that mutually linked.
For example if you want to look for the history of the former president Kennedy; the biography and other complexities will definitely appear. From his career trip, accomplishment that were achieved, his personal experience, to the fall period. All available information about Kennedy is complete enough and the accuracy is good enough. However the things that made this page unique, in some interesting words and could be dig its information further, definitely will be hyperlinked. Click this hyperlink and you will see the complete information and details from these interesting word.
Example the page about Kennedy’s former president, you will find Theodore Roosevelt words, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Democratic, and many others. All these vocabularies were made to hyperlink and if you click, then details and complete information from these words will show up. For example if you click Theodore Roosevelt words, then will also show up the biography and the complete story about him.
So also if you arrived in Theodore Roosevelt page. Many other hyperlink in the page, so you will find plenty of information from that even first time you want to know only about Kennedy. Certainly this will be a heaven for the person who was thirsty for science, isn’t it?
Wikipedia quite simple, but very great. In fact this site only a collection of web pages that mutually related to each other. None was special from this page web. However, things that made it could be so great is it’s collaboration system that could facilitate the volunteers and it’s administrators to always updates the contents and information inside.
Who is the volunteer and the information administrator from the Wikipedia site? Anyone could.
Wikipedia technology came from the application named Wiki. Afterwards this application was used and developed into Wikipedia. What is this Wiki application, how it’s work, how Wikipedia details, all that will be discussed below.
What is Wiki?
Wiki is word that heard very funny if it was said. Wiki came from the term in Hawaii language, meaning ‘fast’. However nobody know why, this Wiki name used by someone named Ward Cunningham to name his software.
Currently in the internet world, the Wiki name became popular and could be interpreted as “a facility or an application that could create and accommodate web pages in large quantities and then could unite it in one unity that mutually related, becoming wide and wide database information, possibly no limit”.
Why Wiki so popular?
Wiki became popular and used by many people because it can ease users to manage their information. If you had a collection information but do not know how to display it well, just try use Wiki.
Easy to use, simple, and light but the results were very astonishing, it is Wiki. As in the case of making e-mail or making blog, Wiki also almost as easy that two facilities. The difference is, Wiki permitted groups of person to enter the administration page, afterwards could change, add, reduce and improve available information inside. Because now information increasingly important in this digital time, then Wiki, the manager of information, became popular. And then Wikipedia entered and become popular, it increasingly just making Wiki usability become more and more popular.
What happened in Wiki?
In the Wiki application, millions of web pages inside could come from one person or more. The web page in Wiki could be created by many people, could be edited by anyone who had the right, and could be added, reduced, or responded by other person, but still could be controlled by admin.
In other words, Wiki also is a “collaborative software” from many people to make a page site. Therefore, the process of making HTML web page became more fast and simple by using this Wiki. Saw this characteristics, not surprised if Wiki used in a large number for accommodating corrective information in a large number and could be modified by many people.
This use for example for the company interests in maintaining cohesiveness of their documentation, for the educational institution interests in giving lesson material in accordance with the curriculum, for the organisation interests in doing the activity documentation and their membership information, for the history information distribution in a museum, and many others.
How the Wiki history?
WikiWikiweb is the first name from software Wiki in the cyber world. WikiWikiweb first time introduced by Ward Cunningham on March 25 1995 as the dedication to Portland Pattern Repository, a company that collecting design software patterns. Cunningham is the idea discoverer and the creator of the first Wiki application engine.
He used the Wiki name after inspired by a term that he heard in a Airport in Honolulu Hawaii, the term to mention a bus shuttle, WikiWiki bus. His first WikiWikiweb page in HTML format by using perl script in 1994-1995. His WikiWikiweb pages still active and you can visit it in http://c2.com/cgi-bin/Wiki/.
Now you can enjoy Wiki in many forms and application. Because Wiki is under GNU licence, then anyone can use it and modify. That is why, the Wiki development is spreading everywhere. One of the most popular application is Wikipedia.
How making and editing the Wikipedia page?
Whoever and whenever the web page could be made easily in Wikipedia. To edit, you only need to click ”edit this page” link in the part on the Wiki page. After that, the editing page will show up, complete with editor tool, symbols, and the editing page. After finished editing, click save page button to keep, that’s all.
The text in Wiki had special syntax, different from HTML. This writing format often named with Wikitext. The reason why using Wikitext is to avoiding tags and non-human readable command, that can confuse the editor. Wiki indeed made to be as comfortable and as easily as possible to be made and read.
Visit the warehouse of world knowledge.
If in front of you there’s PC with the internet connection, immediately type http://www.Wikipedia.org, and then choose the language you like. After that, you have been in the warehouse of world knowledge.
f you have good knowledge in some topics, you can contribute your knowledge in Wikipedia. Just try to register yourself to become the information volunteer. Your service will be enjoyed by the site visitor from all over the world. Great, isn’t?
Therefore, give yourself information if as the user, or the put information you know if as the expert, or put some fund to Wikipedia box if you were satisfied and want to contributing to Wikipedia in a easier way. Have read.
Further:
http://en.Wikipedia.org/Wiki/Wiki
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/Wiki.htm
http://en.Wikibooks.org/Wiki/Wiki_Science:How_to_start_a_Wiki
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