Discourse Community

As with all discourse communities, the Wikipedia discourse community has several unwritten rules that are known of all people within the community. The following are three rules that may be a part of the Wikipedia discourse community. 1. All posts must be presented in a way that allows all people to understand the meaning behind them. Wikipedia seems to present topics in a way that is easier than most "encyclopedias" to understand. 2. Members of the community are encouraged to post up-to-date topics. It seems as though this community includes all things in the reference site. Wikipedia is very current. Topics such as the "i-pod" can be referenced on the web site. 3. The community strongly encourages everyone to get involved in posting new information that is relevant and "cutting edge" within a given field of study.

After searching the web site, I am assuming that the above rules may be some that are common to the Wikipedia discourse community. All of the entries that I saw seemed to possess the same types of qualities.