Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopaedia created and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians using open collaboration and the MediaWiki wikibased editing system.
Wikipedia is the most extensively used and viewed reference source on the entire globe. Wikipedia is free content that anyone may edit use modify and share. This is a motto that applies to all Wikimedia foundation projects: use them for whatever you want.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a member of the free culture movement which advocates for the freedom to freely use and change creative works without the authors consent. You can contribute whatever you like as long as it is relevant to the page and does not violate Wikipedia guidelines. Source
How does wikipedia work?
Wikipedia is an opensource database. Almost every article can be edited at any moment by anybody anywhere. This means that once a page is published volunteer editors can continue to edit and add to it indefinitely (although some Wikipedia pages are secured or closed and require special authorization to edit typically for disputed themes or templates).
All you have to do to start a new page on Wikipedia is register an account and add your new article. Only users who are signed in and registered can create pages however anyone can edit pages; the edits are simply credited to the users IP address. Wikipedia uses bots in addition to volunteer editors to check edits for plagiarism and perform other tedious and repetitive duties like checking for typos. Source
What type of content can go on Wikipedia?
- Culture Entails the social behaviour and norms present in human communities as well as the information beliefs arts laws conventions capabilities and habits of the people who live in these societies.
- Geography Branch of science that studies the regions characteristics inhabitants and phenomena of the Earth and planets.
- Health State of being physically mentally and socially healthy.
- History Study of the past as it is described in written sources.
- Timelines List events in chronological order and occasionally connect to pages with further indepth information.
- Human activities Different things that people do. It includes for example exercise battle relaxation industry and amusement.
- Mathematics A study of numbers (amount) structure space and change. It evolved from counting arithmetic measurement and the methodical study of physical item shapes and motions through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning.
- Biological sciences Natural science is a subfield of science that focuses on the description forecasting and comprehension of natural events using data gathered through experimentation and observation.
- People Diverse group of individuals who are considered collectively such as an ethnic group or a nation.
- Philosophy Study of universal and fundamental issues pertaining to reality wisdom morality intellect and language.
- Reference works Collections of data typically of a single category that has been put together in a book for the convenience of access. In other words it should be easy to find the information when needed.
- Bibliographies Provide a list of sources on a topic for verification or further research outside of Wikipedia.
- Religions Socialcultural systems that connect people to supernatural transcendental or spiritual components through prescribed behaviours and practises morality worldviews texts holy sites prophecies ethics or organisations.
- Society A significant social group that shares a common geographical or social territory and is often subject to the same political authority and prevailing cultural standards. A particular civilization can be described as the whole of these ties among its constituents.
Technology Culmination of all methods procedures skills and means employed in the creation of commodities or services or in the achievement of goal