If earlier for information search constantly used only printing encyclopedias, now the situation is in a different way: it is enough to be connected to the Internet, to open the browser and to load the homepage of "Wikipedia" which is some kind of big reference book.
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1. In what advantages of "Wikipedia" before its analogs or web versions of the famous world encyclopedias? The fact is that this resource is multilingual, support more than 130 languages of the world. There is yet no such resource which combined efforts of the so many people and nations.
2. Why "Wikipedia" combines efforts? Everything is very simple, any Internet user can enter information on a subject or an object which were not lit up to this point. Also each visitor of this website has an opportunity to change the provided information if he considers it incorrect.
3. For this purpose it is necessary to click "Edit", then you enter new data and click "Save". Everything, information was changed. It should be noted that any other user can also change it. It is in that case recommended to supplement article, having specified that there are several interpretation for the described subject or an event.
4. One more great advantage of this Internet encyclopedia is automatic emergence of cross-references. What is it? Cross-references serve for bigger informational content. For example, you opened article about a computer mouse. In the text of article you will meet links to materials which headings are the words of blue color with underlining, characteristic of links. In this article it is possible to meet links to Windows, Apple, x86, the browser, etc.
5. Age of "Wikipedia" more than 10 years since date of publication of the first article is considered on January 15, 2001. If you use not MS Word, but the OpenOffice Writer program as the text editor, you have an opportunity to enable addition which provides quick access to information on the Wikipedia pages.