Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia with over 4.4 million articles. It has conventions like being editable by the public, with information on topics presented in written articles, titles, subheadings, and pictures. Technical conventions include hyperlinks, a sidebar with site preferences and contents, and talk pages for discussing improvements. Over 116 million people visited Wikipedia in September 2013, making it the 9th most popular website.
2. Wikipedia
It’s a online encyclopaedia it has about
*Number of pages: 32,430,906
*Number of articles: 4,471,486
*Number of files: 827,140
*Number of edits: 698,881,826
*Number of Users: 20,927,892
*Number of admins: 1,416
*Number of active registered users:
131,031
During the month of September 2013,
Wikipedia was ranked as the 9th most
popular site on the internet for desktop &
mobile platforms with 116,835,000
visitors.
3. One convention of Wikipedia it’s a online encyclopaedia which is a online reference.
Another convention is, has many written information about different topics and
articles but another convention to this is that the information is editable by the public
which you can only do if you have an account but anyone of the public can easily
make one but if the information is wrong it will get flagged up as unreliable and would
get changed as soon as possible.
The title and subheading for each article gives out more detailed information about
the subject which is also a convention.
Wiki also includes pictures to show the viewers that is relevant to the topic this is also
a convention.
There’s a content box which list the headings of each section on the article and
which you can click on and will jump to the section you want.
There’s also hyperlinks on texts which will go to the relevant article or topic linked to
the text also another hyperlink that wiki has is the logo on the top left which goes
back to the homepage and also that is a convention.
Another convention of wiki there’s a sidebar with preferences, settings, contents and
suggestions that helps the user to get to places of the Wikipedia site that hasn’t got
to do with articles.
Also there’s a institutional details at the bottom showing where the information has
come from to liability of the article.
4. Talk Page
It also have a talk page tab for users for discussing improvements for the
website and the Article it’s giving out information about and this is good to
help for people doing revision.
5. Form: Online encyclopaedia
Structure: Written articles within paragraphs
Content: Information about different topics and pictures.
Technical conventions: See wiki slide
Mode of address: formal, serious, informative, tries to be
objective
