Introducing: TermWiki

Knowledge and information

Every year, every month, every day, the amount of information in the world increases

We store that information...

... in articles, in books, in encyclopedias.

And this is the cool thing about Wikipedia!

All the information about everything.

A LOT OF INFORMATION!

... a lot.

Imagine...

You are reading a news article on CNN.

“Queen makes history with ex-IRA leader handshake”

And you want to know what IRA means...

What is important for you?We will define 3 principles of getting information on the

internet. This cat will help us.

- easy and fast access to information- precise definition or explanation- definition of a forign term in my mother language

So... we need information

OK, let‘s see what IRA is!

1. I open a new browser tab.

2. I type in “wikipedia.org“

3. and click on GO

Finally - Wikipedia!

4. I search for IRA on Wikipedia

...and I see this!

Cool! Let‘s see what IRA is!

I click on this article link....

Yeah! Finally the article page

Wow!

That was a really huge article!

But I just want to read the news on

do you remember?

Let‘s see

Do you remember this cat...

... and our 3 principles of getting information on the internet?

Let‘s see!

Was it easy and fast to get information about the IRA?

... it took 6(!) steps to open the article.

Principle 2

Do I have a short and precise definition?

...oh well, the article is 3700 words long. I really do not want to read this! I just want to know what IRA is!

Principle 3

I am a German native speaker. Yes, I read an English news article, but I want to have a

German definition of IRA. It is easier for me.

But I need to click again on a link – just to see the German Wikipedia definition.

LET US CHANGE THIS!

Introducing

IRA is a term. Just look it up!

... and here you go!Short definition, directly linked to its translations.

So easy, so fast

Try it now!

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