Wikipedia: The know-it-all Web site

Proofreading

RLS 2005

Wikipedia: The know-it-all Web site

• What is an encyclopedia?

It’s described as a 79. encyclopedia containing over 140,000 articles contributed in by peoplefrom all over the world.

• We only need one preposition after “contributed”.

• Who contributed the articles?

• Delete “in”.

80. from all over the world. What is too unique is that not only is it free and81. easy for to use, it also allows users to go in and edit an entry. Wiki comes82. from the Hawaiian term for “quick”. It’s a fast and easy way to publish 83. online and it’s the collective work of many writers.

• Are “free” and “easy” positive or negative descriptions?

• Which word is used to describe something negative?

• Delete “too”.

80. from all over the world. What is too unique is that not only is it free and81. easy for to use, it also allows users to go in and edit an entry. Wiki comes82. from the Hawaiian term for “quick”. It’s a fast and easy way to publish 83. online and it’s the collective work of many writers.

• It is easy for people to use.

• Delete “for”.

80. from all over the world. What is too unique is that not only is it free and81. easy for to use, it also allows users to go in and edit an entry. Wiki comes82. from the Hawaiian term for “quick”. It’s a fast and easy way to publish 83. online and it’s the collective work of many writers.

• Correct

80. from all over the world. What is too unique is that not only is it free and81. easy for to use, it also allows users to go in and edit an entry. Wiki comes82. from the Hawaiian term for “quick”. It’s a fast and easy way to publish 83. online and it’s the collective work of many writers.

• Correct

84. Abbie Wong and Olivia Yuen are good at examples of contributors.85. These HK University students who sent their appreciation86. of the local shoreline to Wikipedia. Wong and Yuen offered a guide87. to HK’s most popular beaches. Just minutes after when the88. article did hit the site, it was amended by Wikipedia’s followers.

• Ex. 1: He is good at English.

• Ex. 2: He is a good teacher.

• Delete “at”.

84. Abbie Wong and Olivia Yuen are good at examples of contributors.85. These HK University students who sent their appreciation86. of the local shoreline to Wikipedia. Wong and Yuen offered a guide87. to HK’s most popular beaches. Just minutes after when the88. article did hit the site, it was amended by Wikipedia’s followers.

• “Who” is used to introduce an adjective clause.

• If “who sent … to Wikipedia” is an adjective clause, then this is an incomplete sentence.

• Delete “who”.

84. Abbie Wong and Olivia Yuen are good at examples of contributors.85. These HK University students who sent their appreciation86. of the local shoreline to Wikipedia. Wong and Yuen offered a guide87. to HK’s most popular beaches. Just minutes after when the88. article did hit the site, it was amended by Wikipedia’s followers.

• Correct

84. Abbie Wong and Olivia Yuen are good at examples of contributors.85. These HK University students who sent their appreciation86. of the local shoreline to Wikipedia. Wong and Yuen offered a guide87. to HK’s most popular beaches. Just minutes after when the88. article did hit the site, it was amended by Wikipedia’s followers.

• Either “after” or “when” must be deleted. You can’t have both.

• Do you think the article was amended shortly after hitting the site or at the exact moment that it his the site.

• Delete “when”.

84. Abbie Wong and Olivia Yuen are good at examples of contributors.85. These HK University students who sent their appreciation86. of the local shoreline to Wikipedia. Wong and Yuen offered a guide87. to HK’s most popular beaches. Just minutes after when the88. article did hit the site, it was amended by Wikipedia’s followers.

• People add the verb “do” to a sentence for emphasis when they think their audience may doubt what they are saying.

• We have no reason to doubt whether or not Abbie and Olivia posted their article.

• Delete “did”.

89. Student Tony Yeung took up a digital camera to Hong Kong’s90. Victoria Peak and published a Wiki entry on the popular tourist lookout.

• Ex.1: I took up many hobbies when I was in Form 1.

• Ex.2: I took my girlfriend to a movie.

• Delete “up”.

89. Student Tony Yeung took up a digital camera to Hong Kong’s90. Victoria Peak and published a Wiki entry on the popular tourist lookout.

• Correct

91. “The next day, I have found that my careless mistakes in English had been92. corrected!” Yeung Says. While Yeung doesn’t mind to being corrected by93. complete strangers, the site’s free-for-all editing may be upset other people

• We are talking about a particular moment in the past, so we shouldn’t use the present perfect.

• Delete “have”.

91. “The next day, I have found that my careless mistakes in English had been92. corrected!” Yeung Says. While Yeung doesn’t mind to being corrected by93. complete strangers, the site’s free-for-all editing may be upset other people

• “Mind” should be followed by the “-ing” form.

• Ex.: I don’t mind helping you.

• Delete “to”.

91. “The next day, I have found that my careless mistakes in English had been92. corrected!” Yeung Says. While Yeung doesn’t mind to being corrected by93. complete strangers, the site’s free-for-all editing may be upset other people

• Upset can be a verb or an adjective.

• Ex.1: His mother is upset.

• Ex.2: His behaviour upset his mother.

• Delete “be”.

94. people. However, this such way of working follows an “open source”95. model. Wiki supporters believe that the more people read the content, 96. the more faster any inaccuracies are taken out of what has been written.

• “This” and “such” do not go together.• Since the article “a” would be needed

between “such” and “way”, the answer is obvious.

• Delete “such”• N.B. “such a way” would not be appropriate here anyway

because “such” is used before noun groups to emphasize the extent of something or to emphasize that something is remarkable.

94. people. However, this such way of working follows an “open “source”95. model. Wiki supporters believe that the more people read the content, 96. the more faster any inaccuracies are taken out of what has been written.

• Correct

94. people. However, this such way of working follows and “open “source”95. model. Wiki supporters believe that the more people read the content, 96. the more faster any inaccuracies are taken out of what has been written.

• “-er” = “more”

• “Fast” only has one syllable.

• Delete “more”

97. In the Wiki world, it really is “the more, the merrier”.

• Correct