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HYUKSIN KWON (BILLY)
EAP 2
November 17, 2008
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the way online to share each person’s knowledge. Not only can everybody get knowledge for free, but everybody can also share their own knowledge. “Seven per cent of all internet users now visit the site every day” (Martin, 2008, para.13). And, the number of users of Wikipedia has grown for six years. People feel free because they can share their knowledge anytime anonymously because it is useful for people. On the other hand, some educators are worried about how fake knowledge in Wikipedia affects to people who are not professional enough to distinguish truthfulness of knowledge (Lengel, 2006).
In fact, some information in Wikipidia is sometimes not professional knowledge. “history department had banned the citation of Wikipedia for history papers and exams” (Byers, 2007, para. 1). Besides, sometimes, people who use Wikipedia with ill feeing can post wrong information purposely (Martin, 2008).
The best way to get new knowledge is when somebody answers to what one wants to know. It is the best advantage of Wikipedia. Because of that advantage, people go to Wikipedia to get information. “Approximately 38 million people visited the English version of the site in December, 2006” (Byers, 2007, para. 2). In addition, people can access Wikipedia readily. And, anyone can approach Wikipidia anytime to post knowledge and get what they want (Martin, 2008).