Purpose - The purpose of Wikipedia is to provide users with information about people who are mostly famous like Will Smith with a profile about him, his history and his life. It gives you information about different places like Balch Creek with facts like "It's a 3.5 mile tributary of the Willamette River in the U.S state of Oregon". The information is not always reliable but a lot of it is with people being allowed to edit what the page says if they have something to add. If information isn't correct people can report the page so it can be removed by the people who moderate the site.
Visitor Needs - The Visitor needs of Wikipedia is aimed at everyone who has or can use a computer with their being information on just about anything with it going into detail about certain people and how they ended up where they're and if they're an actor which films they have been in. The information on a lot of pages is aimed at younger people with the information being delivered as being quite simple with pictures and short sentences but some pages have almost no pictures and complicated sentences which are aimed at older people. The visitor would want to be able to quickly access a variety of different information which isn't just filled with complicated text it should be easy to read with pictures to look at which makes it more appealing and makes people want to actually read the page.
C) Information Flow – The Wikipedia website
makes it easy for the users the navigate around the site with a lot of the
words being hyperlinked to take you to different pages but whichever page you
end up on the logo is always displayed at the top left which when clicked will
bring you back to the Wikipedia home page so you can always go bar and the
search bar is displayed at the top on every page so you can search for as many
things as you need. The account login is displayed at the very top, which will
come up on every page so you don’t have to go to the home page just to login,
which makes it easier for users. Under the logo on the left there are many
links to help you like every language you can change it to being displayed and
once clicked it changes every page to that language till you click it back to
another there are also helpful tabs like “contents” “create a book” “donate to
Wikipedia” “random article” “help” “community portal” and many others.
D) Features – The website Wikipedia has a
lot of features with every word on the page is hyperlinked to a different page
which talks about that specific word, place, person or subject which is full of
information. There is a scroll bar on the side of the page, which allows you to
scroll down the page and up to see more information, at the top of the page
there is the Wikipedia logo on the left which also navigates you back to the
home page with a number of different languages below it incase you cant read
English. Across from the logo on the top right of the page is where you can
login to your account which allows you to edit different pages and either add
or delete information on that specific page to improve it.
E) Benefits – The benefit of Wikipedia for
the user is that you can find out information about a person, subject or place
which goes into detail about that person or places history and many other
things about them. You can find this information within seconds by just typing
in the search bar what you need to know which is useful for when revising at
school and you need to know what something means or who someone is or what a
place is. It benefits a variety of people by allowing you to change what
language you see the text in for people who cant read English.
(Producer) Wikipedia is a non-profit
organisation, which doesn’t have a profit game, but they benefit from trying to
encourage people to donate to their charity, which aims to help thousands of
people around the world.
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