Friday, March 23, 2012

What I really think wiki is…


         Wikipedia is a Multilanguage non-profit on-line encyclopedia website. It starts a project called Nupedia and develops in January 2001 in the United State by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (Wikipedia, history of wikipedia). Wikipedia becomes popular in the internet. When people decided to learn some new items, the first choice is Wikipedia. It is very convenient to get access to variety of information though Wikipedia website. Different form traditional encyclopedia that the recourse cited in the Wiki could be anything, such as website information or news. However, the traditional encyclopedia would only use published academic recourse as reference materials. Every day, thousands of information is added to Wiki that allows the website to be rich in information, but every coin has two sides. So many information that some of the information might lack of accuracy. Traditional encyclopedia is edited by editors so that it is more accuracy than wiki.
         My topic is Liu An Guapian which is a famous Chinese green tea. This topic is too abroad. In order to introduce this topic well, I narrow down the topic and I choose one of the specific aspect to introduce this topic. I prefer to introduce Liu An Guapian from history aspect. Since the materials about Liu An guapian is very limit, I have to use information from website, which I think the information is not academic enough, but reliable for using. I also consider that the article I wrote is not a scientific article but a briefly history story. Since the article do not use academic reference, it cannot be used in academic area. This article does not contain scientific language so that people can understand it well without explanation. I take my article as an example to state that in an academic writing, information from Wiki should be avoided. 
I would like to in introduce one of my classmate http://feiyanales204.blogspot.ca/2012/03/wikipedia-article-give-you-warm-in.html
Reference:
Wikipedia (n.d.). In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#History
Lu'an Melon Seed(n.d.) In  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_An_Guapian_tea