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1 What is a wiki? Skills: IT concepts: Wiki operations: edit, show history, discuss, and create a page, Wikipedia This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 License.

2 Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts –Applications –Technology –Implications Internet skills –Application development –Content creation

3 Watch Wikis in Plain English (3:40).Wikis in Plain English

4 Page editing Any authorized user can edit a page. The goal is to improve the document with each edit. Differences of opinion are resolved on a separate discussion or comment page – the goal is to seek consensus or state both opinions separately. Users can add new pages and link to them.

5 Wiki page functions

6 To edit a page 1.Click edit this page 2.Make your changes 3.Click save

7 Sample page history

8 Acoustic Design With 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. Criticism This 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.Guggenheim Museum BilbaoWeisman Art Museum 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.“Samuels, David The Atlantic Monthly Page discussion sample

9 Create and link to other pages

10 Wikipedia

11 How college students use Wikipedia Evaluation of Wikipedia More on Wikipedia

12 A few questions

13 We mentioned four functions for every wiki page. One was editing the page. Without looking back, do you recall the others? What are the three steps in editing a page?

14 What is a wiki? Skills: IT concepts: Wiki operations: edit, show history, discuss, and create a page, Wikipedia This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 License.


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