Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that
is available in 321 languages. It was founded in the United States of America
by the Wikimedia Foundation, created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in the
year 2001. It has around one billion registered users.
It is an open-source platform that is
widely used by the general public to search for their queries. The query can be
anything related to any confusion. When it comes to search engine optimization
ranking, the Wikipedia website is one of the best platforms.
It is consistently one of the fifteen
most popular websites as ranked by Alexa as of 2021 with a rank of 13. There is
a common saying about Wikipedia that the world lies in Wikipedia.
It has imparted such a big impact on the
general public that there is a perception about Wikipedia, in the general
public mind, that they will get everything that they want in Wikipedia.
There is a lobby of a huge number of
people who are using Wikipedia religiously, for their every search, because
their perception is that they will get the most authentic and legal source.
Some people are also there who resist using it because of its open-source
feature.
They think that though it is an
open-source platform that means anyone can write and edit articles with no
proper permission and the editors and privileged administrators might skip
their articles and chances are high that any sort of misinterpreted information
can be communicated throw their articles.
Evolution
Wikipedia launched its first edition on
15 January 2001, two days after the website was started. It is an online
free-content encyclopedia project helping to create a world in which everyone
can freely share the sum of all knowledge it is supported by the Wikimedia
Foundation is based on a model of fully editable content.
The name Wikipedia is a blending of words
wiki and encyclopedia. Wikipedia’s article provides links designed to provide
the user with related pages with additional information. Wikipedia is written
by largely anonymous volunteers who contribute without charging anything.
Anyone with internet access can write and
make changes to Wikipedia articles, except in limited cases where editing is
restricted to prevent further disruption or vandalism.
Wikipedia has four levels of
administration:
Reader: These are the people who read the
articles on Wikipedia. This community is the largest commukipedia.
Writer: These are the people who also
read the article but their forte is in writing so they mainly write the
articles. They are experienced readers and qualified writers.
Editor: These are the people who are the
readers also but they are more experienced than the absolute readers so, they
also indulged in editing activities.
Privileged Administrator: These are the
members of elite groups who are given some more authority to identify
controversial public topics and delete them from the website. Generally, they
are even more experienced and are capable of identifying vulgar and
controversial topics and delete them.
Process Of
Writing Article
Launch the Wikipedia wizard to start
creating, writing, and submitting a proposed article as a non- auto confirmed
user, go to the Wikipedia article creation page then click on the new article
button to launch the Wikipedia article wizard.
Read through Wikipedia’s article wizard
to get to the article draft page. First, click through to the article wizard
from the article of creation page, or go directly to the article wizard at the
link provided in the Wikipedia article wizard page.
Then, read and click through each of the
first 3 pages in the wizard to get to the create article draft page. Enter the
name of your article draft and click new article draft. On the last page of the
article wizard, you’ll be asked to enter the name of your article draft.
Write the content of your proposed
article in the text box. Wikipedia provides some directions for writing your
article in the text box, which then, can later be edited or deleted.
Conclusion
Wikipedia is a very good platform to
provide knowledge to the general public but there is also some space for misled
information which makes it a little dicey to choose from as an authentic
source.
As your work remains in the drafting
area, you will be able to edit it when required. Draft articles that aren’t
published or further edited for six months will usually be deleted from the
drafting area. If your article is rejected, you will still be able to edit it
for future re-submission.
Once you feel like you have edited it
enough and that it is ready for re-submission, you can request a review by
adding submit at the beginning of the draft.
A general discussion is going on, in the
management of the organization, that the time has come to increase the revenue
from Wikipedia by making it a paid service.
There is no conclusion yet arrived. This
platform is the basis of several types of research but as the leniency
increased in cases of several article checks, the level of trust has constantly
been on a declined slope.
Written by- Aditya Pandey
Edited by - Piyush Pandey
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