Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Week 10 blog
During the week we had to learn how to make / edit pages on Wikipedia. Wikipedia being a very important collaborations tool, information is gathered by many users and brought together to give people (mostly) accurate information about a topic. My group decided to edit Baby Furniture which was a pretty random topic but there was plenty of things for us to look up and add to this preexisting page. While I found that the training modules were somewhat tedious it was useful especially for making links. Good collaboration can keep sources of information like wikipedia safe, I have seen my fair share of pages that have been tampered or outright wrong (either by people messing around for by a potential typo) and the ability to be able to help keep things in order keeps it healthy. What is your thoughts on Wikipedia? Do you think that it is a good way to have information? Do you think its good to allow anyone to change it?
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I think wikipedia is a great way to get information. Most of the information on the site is properly cited and can be a great pool of information. Allowing people to edit wikipedia pages allows for the most recent information. For example, if a famous person dies, within an hour, their wikipedia page is edited with the death date and information regarding it. It allows for fast information, and should be used as a way to find information, and the sources that are given are great professional sources.
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