Friday, 23 March 2012

Wiki Week

    We may find everything we want to know on Wikipedia. It is a huge data-base, and it is a giant resource-sharing centre. It is a online encyclopedia, on which people may edit and peer review any stub they are interested in. In general, If we just want to know something of the knowledge, Wikipedia is enough, because its advantage in informative quantity.But the Wiki also has its drawbacks. Due to the data on Wiki allows everyone to edit, so editors may be biased on the stub they are editing. Therefore, if applied in the fields of science, the data on Wikipedia is not being used as citation, because it is difficult to prove if it is really correct.

    I've edited one stub on Wiki, which is about Wang Jingwei, a politician during WW2. It is difficult to add anything new to a stub which is already having lots of information. So I have to be careful that the content of mine do not overlap with other people's. I added the information I got from books and articles, which other people didn't mention. 

  
    The reference takes a little bit work to do, since it is using the certain types of format. 

Wang Jingwei Wikipedia article screenshot  Yuhan Jiang, March 22, 2012.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Jingwei


   I found Lindsay's blog very interesting, and she is talking about the "super food"  which gives people strength and health body. I think "super food" will become the main strain of people's diet in the future, because the needs of keeping fit and healthy are becoming more and more important nowadays.

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