Thursday, May 28, 2009

which wiki

This assignment is about the wiki encyclopedia Wikipedia. This is the big famous online encyclopedia that some instructors love and others don't trust. This assignment is to have you look around and understand the process of creating and editing these entries. By looking at these articles and the history, you can begin to understand the process and decide if your think the entries are valuable and trustworthy.

There is a huge group of volunteer editors who work very hard to ensure that Wikipedia entries are accurate and reliable. They note any problems or inconsistencies. The encourage authors to provide links to "better" authenticated sources. It is a very impressive process.

WikiEducator is also pblic but it is more for students and instructors to use to write and "publish" course related information. Student projects like the CIS2 final group projects are pretty typical of the information presented in WikiEducator. For the final project your group will be creating a page on a different wiki - WikiEducator. Links to the appropriate WikiEducator page and template pages have been set up.
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