User:LiamHornby1/sandbox

How Wikipedia helps!
Wikipedia is a useful way to keep unto date with certain topics of interest and is a useful way to show off your ict skills. Wikipedia has over 23 million articles that have been writen by users on it that are about stories and important facts about a certain topic that allows the general public to see it and edit it if the information that has been put on is out of date or incorrect. The benefits of using Wikipedia are that you get to share your general knowledge and facts with people from all over the world aswell as showing your computer skills off. Using Wikipedia allows you to educate other people aswell as learning important facts and information that you might not know and want to know about. Before people can publish an article onto wikipedia they check that what you have wrote is not copyrighted from another website. First David you need to go onto www.wikipwdia.org, this will lead you to the main page of wikipedia. Then you can use the search bar that wikipedia have to search any topic that you want to know about for example media, history and general knowledge facts. Using wikipedia will help you develop your knowledge for the pub quizes that you enter.

Creating an Account?
For you to share your knowledge you will need to create a wikipedia account. To do this you will firstly need to enter the wikipedia website which is www.wikipedia.org. Next you will be shown onto the home screen of wikipedia, in the top hand corner is says create account click on this and it will lead you to the creating account page. You will need to create a username, password, email account and the security code answer correctly. You will then need to go onto your E-mail account such as hotmail. To get onto your hotmail account you will need to go onto www.msn.com, this will then lead you to where you need to sign in, once you have signed in you will need to verify your wikipedia account so that wikipedia will allow you to use the facilities on the website.Once you have done this wikipedia will allow you access to create and publish an article of your choosing. You will then need to click on My sandbox to start writing your article, once you have started writing your article you will need to keep saving it incase the website crashes. Once you finished your article it will then be published onto wikipedia and people from all over the world will be able to read this information.

Benefits of Encyclopaedias?
Using Wikipedia will also help you develop some useful ICT skills because it will get you used to using the internet and checking and sourcing information out on the internet from different websites such as Wikipedia that you wouldnt normally use,this could also help you when using the internet in work or looking for good websites for information for the job that you do. Other benefits of using websites such as encyclopaedias is that you learn new information and facts about different subjects which helps you with your knowledge, you also get to show people the knowledge that you already know and get to help people with theres in a way because you are learning them new facts and information that they dont know.