LeeAnne taught me something great today about what a wiki is. Most everyone has heard of
Wikipedia, but then what is a wiki? Ironically LeeAnne looked up "wiki" on Wikipedia and learned that Wikipedia is just an example of what can be done with a wiki. There is a history of how wiki's came to be and what they can be used for. A "wiki" is really just a public encyclopedia. The great thing is that anyone can create or edit a wiki. The idea is that with enough people editing each other, content would be verified by enough sources to be trustworthy. While this might not always be true, there are a lot of great things that can be done by wiki's. Once I had learned that there can be wiki's on anything, I found a wiki on one of my favorite hobbies:
Warhammer. This one wiki is so full of information about this great tabletop game, that I could spend weeks reading all the articles. If you're reading this then you should try finding a wiki created specifically for something you love. You never know what you'll find.
At what point do you think a wiki is reliable? After 10 people review it, 50, or 100? Or does it have to do with the kind of information we are dealing with? Interesting post Brandon!
ReplyDeleteThat's a good question. And how do we know the people reviewing it are even reliable? I think the hope is that there are more people that are trying to improve the wiki then there are people who just try to mess it up.
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