Archive:Stories: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
--> |
--> |
||
{{cquote|Wikipedia is amazing. Being away from my home country and having left all the books behind, Wikipedia really gives me opportunity to carry knowledge around the world. The most amazing part is how it is easy to access same information in different languages. It makes it easier for me to translate things and communicate with people who learned the same thing in different languages. |
|||
I hope eventually universities accept Wikipedia as a legitimate source of facts. }} |
|||
<hr> |
|||
{{cquote|I first discovered Wikipedia in my first year of high school as a viable, reliable, and easier-to-use alternative to my old dusty collection of the Encyclopedia Britannica for a research project I had to complete. I found Wikipedia to be much easier to use, and finding information on what you're looking for literally can't be easier. Better yet, Wikipedia is current and up-to-date, resulting in the most full and comprehensive information database in the world. I continued to use Wikipedia as my primary source of information throughout my school and university career, and continue to use it on a daily basis. People don't give Wikipedia its due credit and respect because they think that anyone can go and plant incorrect information into articles, rendering all information on Wikipedia as non-credible, but this is nothing more than a myth devised by an older generation who cannot grasp the idea that people knowledgeable on a certain topic would take the time and effort to write or add to an article out of the good will of their hearts to help educate the rest of the world. Would you ask a doctor about a medical condition? A doctor wrote the article about that condition on Wikipedia. Would you ask a physicist about the theory of relativity or quantum mechanics? A physicist wrote those articles on Wikipedia. Not everybody can afford a complete set of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and not everybody can find the time to go to a library and pick through dozens of books to find little pieces of information here and there that is actually pertinent to what they are looking for. But everybody can afford Wikipedia. Everybody has the time to type in a single word or phrase describing their topic, opening a world of knowledge with the click of a button. Everybody has access to Wikipedia across the globe. There are millions of articles in hundreds of languages, and considering the proliferation of the internet on a global scale at this time, there is no excuse for anyone not to access the abundant wealth of knowledge that lies in the lush, endless gardens of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is undoubtedly the greatest (in every possible way) source of information in the world. }} |
{{cquote|I first discovered Wikipedia in my first year of high school as a viable, reliable, and easier-to-use alternative to my old dusty collection of the Encyclopedia Britannica for a research project I had to complete. I found Wikipedia to be much easier to use, and finding information on what you're looking for literally can't be easier. Better yet, Wikipedia is current and up-to-date, resulting in the most full and comprehensive information database in the world. I continued to use Wikipedia as my primary source of information throughout my school and university career, and continue to use it on a daily basis. People don't give Wikipedia its due credit and respect because they think that anyone can go and plant incorrect information into articles, rendering all information on Wikipedia as non-credible, but this is nothing more than a myth devised by an older generation who cannot grasp the idea that people knowledgeable on a certain topic would take the time and effort to write or add to an article out of the good will of their hearts to help educate the rest of the world. Would you ask a doctor about a medical condition? A doctor wrote the article about that condition on Wikipedia. Would you ask a physicist about the theory of relativity or quantum mechanics? A physicist wrote those articles on Wikipedia. Not everybody can afford a complete set of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and not everybody can find the time to go to a library and pick through dozens of books to find little pieces of information here and there that is actually pertinent to what they are looking for. But everybody can afford Wikipedia. Everybody has the time to type in a single word or phrase describing their topic, opening a world of knowledge with the click of a button. Everybody has access to Wikipedia across the globe. There are millions of articles in hundreds of languages, and considering the proliferation of the internet on a global scale at this time, there is no excuse for anyone not to access the abundant wealth of knowledge that lies in the lush, endless gardens of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is undoubtedly the greatest (in every possible way) source of information in the world. }} |
||
Revision as of 04:18, 20 February 2011
Template:2010/Donate-header/en
Template:2009/Header-links/en
Wikipedia is Changing Lives
Here are just a few of the amazing stories that our users shared with us. We thank them for their willingness to tell their story about Wikipedia.
- From our 2010-2011 Fundraiser
- From our 2009-2010 fundraiser
A story from Romania:
Template:Cquote English translation: Template:Cquote
You can find the article that Adama started in the French Wikipedia: Agnam-Goly.
Have a story to share? Please tell us! Click here.
Click here to make a financial donation to the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.