1. Computers in Society Wikipedia

2. Homework Another homework will appear today. You will need to find a Digital Divide project and report back on it.

3. Teams I will assign teams Thursday. There will be 3 team-based homeworks – two presentations and one written. It’s important that teams work together!

4. Term Papers I will be placing comments on your term paper page by Thursday. We’ll be negotiating the topic – if I can’t find enough computing in it we’ll have to keep looking. Once I approve your topic, start finding references.

5. Wikipedia What news event does the NYT start with? How old was the editor that supervised the original version of the article? How old is Wikipedia? About how many articles are in the English language version? How many registered users? What are some of the views that people have of the Wikipedia?

6. Wikipedia How has the Wikipedia changed the notion of an encyclopedia? What happened after the Virginia Tech attack? What happened to Wikinews? Why do people believe Wikipedia is accurate even when any bozo can write in it? Is Wikipedia often questioned as an accurate source of information?

7. Wikipedia How does the Wikipedia work? Who founded Wikipedia? How many admins are there? What sort of powers does an admin have? How to users become an admin? What other sorts of users are there? Who ultimately controls Wikipedia?

8. Wikipedia What are the Five Pillars? Did you look at them? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five _pillars)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five _pillars How do wikipedia users judge each other? Can “reporters” edit Wikipedia? How to wikipedia editors gather information for breaking news?