In face of the situation such as basic scientific literacy of citizens in our country is less optimistic and Web 2.0 era is coming, Wikipedia network is becoming a new popular model of science popularization. Wikipedia is a typical innovation of Web 2.0 under the conditions of knowledge society. It can stimulate most of the internet users to be involved in the creation and interaction on the net. Hudong.com, for example, as the largest global Chinese Wikipedia supported and constructed by volunteers from all over the world, makes up the disadvantages of the traditional popular science website, realizes the transformation of the purpose of science popularization, diversification of subjects, change of content organization, transformation of communicative forms and paths, building of self-improvement mechanism etc. However, it also has the following disadvantages: low rate of popularization and low quality of the entries. In conclusion, the paper gives advices aiming at these disadvantages in order to popularize this model better.

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