WIKIALITY

We have started a new unit called Wikiality. It is about the wikipedia put in real life so that we can understand about the things that wiki-ers go through.

To get started, we got in pairs and made wiki's of our own. I got together with Binderya. It is really easy to make a wiki. You just go on pbwiki.com and create an account. Once you have created and account, you can put new posts and stuff just like on blogger.

Then, we put on our script that we did a long time ago. Our page was changed, but better than some other people's. On our page, the words were switched around and making the meaning of our script exactly the opposite. Lots of it were very funny, to tell the truth. But if i were a serious wiki-er and put on real information that i think is important for other people, and then people go and change it just for fun, i think it would be really fustrating and i would feel unworthy because people are not making my wiki worthy to them. Only our class kids edited eachother's pages, so they put really funny stuff. It was fun to see all the funny things that they wrote.

When someone has changed a wiki, you can change it back, but it might be hard. You have to look at recent activity and see exactly what people changed. You can look at it and change it back. Sometimes it might be difficult because someone might have changed a huge amount of things.

Wikis i think is not a very good site to put anythink on. Even if you put just a sentence saying "i love apples" anyone can go on there and put false information that some other person can see and think that you wrote it, getting a false understanding of you. It is better to have nothing than to have some fake things.

The ways that wikis could be used are:
-just for fun
-get feedback or surveys of some sort
I think the best way is to question people for their ideas and opinions. For example, you could ask people to say what they think about global warming. The people can edit it and tell you what they feel. It is still not a good way because after someone wrote something thoughtful, someone else can go on it and mess up what they wrote. I think there is a lock button on a wiki. But if there is'nt, then there definitely should be.

The people who create these wikis can be anyone. Mostly people from the wiki staff put the main information up in the beginning and others can change them. Other people can make wikis too. They dont have to only edit posted wikis.

Why use wiki? Because it is a universal and widespread source of information. It is rare that informatin is true. The people that edit them are, like i said previously, are the wiki staff and administratives.

Our task is to find a wiki and make changes on it. The create part is to edit a wiki, but only one that has false information.