2006-08-17 00:44:33 · 10 answers · asked by sanja77 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Thank goodness someone else feels the same as me. I hate it too.
Yeah sure I could look on Wikipedia for myself etc but then we wouldn't comunincate with other people.
Sometimes I just like to see how clever people are. If they read on wikipedia and then typed their own variation of it that would be must better but just to copy and paste. It shows they understand what they are talking about and makes them look clever rather than just showing off cos they know how to use ctrl +v!
2006-08-17 00:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by Gillipoos 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
Wikipedia (IPA: /ˌwiːkiːˈpiːdi.ə/, or /ˌwɪkiːˈpiːdi.ə/, else /ˌwɪkəpiːdi.ə/) is an international Web-based free-content encyclopedia project. It exists as a wiki, a website that allows visitors to edit its content. The word Wikipedia itself is a portmanteau of the words wiki and encyclopedia. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by anyone with access to the website. Wikipedia's main servers are in Tampa, Florida, with additional servers in Amsterdam and Seoul.
The project began in January 2001, as a complement to the expert-written (and now defunct) Nupedia, and is now operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. It was created by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales; however, Sanger resigned from both Nupedia and Wikipedia on March 1, 2002. Wales has described Wikipedia "an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language."[1]
As of August 2006, Wikipedia has more than 4,900,000 articles in many languages, including more than 1,300,000 in the English-language version. There are 229 language editions of Wikipedia, sixteen of which have more than 50,000 articles each. The German-language edition has been distributed on DVD-ROM, and there have also been proposals for an English DVD or print edition. Since its inception, Wikipedia has steadily risen in popularity,[2] and has spawned several sister projects. According to Alexa (an internet traffic observer), Wikipedia is ranked among the top 20 most visited websites, and many of its pages have been mirrored or forked by other sites, such as Answers.com.
There has been controversy over Wikipedia's reliability and accuracy, with the site receiving criticism for its susceptibility to vandalism, uneven quality and inconsistency, systemic bias, and preference for consensus or popularity over credentials.
2006-08-17 00:52:40 · answer #2 · answered by Mose 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
replica and Paste replica-and-paste refers back to the popular, trouble-free technique of reproducing textual content fabric or different documents from a source to a trip spot. It differs from cut back and paste in that the unique source textual content fabric or documents does not get deleted or bumped off. the attractiveness of this technique stems from its simplicity and the ease with which shoppers can circulate documents between particularly some applications visually — with out resorting to everlasting storage. Copying many times occurs in graphical consumer interface platforms with the aid of use of the foremost-mixtures Ctrl+C (used for killing the working technique in UNIX terminals); or with the aid of utilising another technique, jointly with a context menu or a toolbar button. as quickly as one has copied documents into the portion of reminiscence pronounced as a results of fact the clipboard, one would paste the contents of the clipboard right into a trip spot utilising the foremost mixtures Ctrl+V, or different procedures based on the device. Macintosh desktops use the foremost mixtures ?C and ?V. The X Window device keeps one extra clipboard containing the main presently chosen textual content fabric; center-clicking pastes the content fabric of this "decision" clipboard into notwithstanding the mouse pointer is on at that component. maximum terminal emulators and another applications help the foremost mixtures Ctrl-Insert to repeat and Shift-Insert to stick. it is in accordance with the IBM trouble-free consumer get right of entry to (CUA) conventional.
2016-10-02 04:50:26 · answer #3 · answered by boscia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do. I often provide a link but I prefer to write in my own words as I will only answer something I can understand myself.
2006-08-17 00:50:25 · answer #4 · answered by Ragdollfloozie is Pensive! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes - considering Wikipedia is not necessarily the most reliable reference - anyone can go on to it and add to it.
2006-08-17 01:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by Miss Vicki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do, when I ask a question I am wanting each persons personal take on things not a cookie cutter response!!!!!!!!
2006-08-17 00:56:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate if they dont specify the source link!
2006-08-17 00:49:48 · answer #7 · answered by Princess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess they don't want to think for themselves. It is nice hearing other peoples experiences but you can't have em all, right?
2006-08-17 00:51:04 · answer #8 · answered by peg 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's their way of saying, "I can't believe you're too lazy to look this up yourself, see how easy it was?"
2006-08-17 00:48:55 · answer #9 · answered by 006 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you're allowed to do that?
damn.. would have saved me a lot of typing.....(and thinking)
2006-08-17 00:57:29 · answer #10 · answered by shazam 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋