Skills: edit a wiki pageConcepts: Wiki operations: edit, show history, discuss, and create a page, Wikipedia

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What is a wiki?

Where does this topic fit?

• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills

Wikipedia

Watch Wikis in Plain English (3m 40s)http://commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

Four wiki page functions

Edit pages

1. Click edit this page

2. Make your changes

3. Click save

Create and link to other pages

Acoustic DesignWith all the praise given to the acoustical quality, the article really needs to tell us who was the sound engineer who designed the acoustics. Does anybody know? I remember that he was Japanese.

CriticismThis is of course a POV - but there are several news articles criticizing the design of it as (a) not tasteful (b) impractical and (c) looking like a messed up version of the Sydney opera house!

Just another version of the ugly Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and a giant version of the also ugly Weisman Art Museum and several other monstrosities Gehry has perpetuated on unwitting communities.

Well i got a new one here: Samuels, David (April 2008). "Shooting Britney". The Atlantic Monthly 301 (3): p.46. "..., the core of the decayed downtown is wrapped around Frank Gehry's undulating, steel-clad concert hall, which looks like a giant steel-capped molar in a mouthful of rotting teeth.“

Summary

Self-study questions

We mentioned four functions for every wiki page. One was viewing the page. Without looking back, do you recall the others?

What are the three steps in editing a page?

Is a wiki a one-many medium?

Wikipedia is useful, but can you find other useful wikis on the Web? Which sites have you found to be effective?

Resources

Wikis in Plain English (3m 40s)http://commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

How college students use Wikipedia:http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2830/2476

Evaluation of Wikipedea:http://delicious.com/lpress/wikieval