Wikiality Investigation
We firstly made a group wiki website. I was working together with Sarah and Brooke. We went to a website called "PB Wiki" (http://www.pbworks.com) that offers free wiki. We made an account using Sarah's email address, and we put a nickname called "Bobella" :) as our name in order to hide our identity. We decided that everyone on this website is allowed to add or edit things on our wiki web document.
After we created our wiki called "BOBELLA", we put Sarah's fictional podcast script as our web document. Then, we went to other groups' wiki websites individually, and we made either a comment or added changes on their script or wiki front page.
When I was looking around others wiki webs, I intentionally made some "funny" comments on them. I was being one of those mean users who put false or silly information on wikis. I felt very interesting that I could change information so easily even though the website did not belong to me.
When I was done with commenting on other wiki websites, I went back to our group's wiki, and found out what changes have been made. As I expected, our script became very different to the original one. People added silly stuff, and some were even perverted... :(!! Our script had a short profile of the narrator, who was a teen girl, but now there is a profile of weird black guy who enjoys clubbing, not reading. I think people changed these things on our wiki just for fun because they already knew that our wiki belongs to one of their classmates, so it is okay to add silly stuff on it. Also, I do not think that they would do the same thing on professional wiki websites because all the information on those webs needed to be accurate as much as possible so that a lot of people can share each other. When I saw our wiki at first, I felt a little bit angry because we put our information in order to share each other, not just letting them to "adjust" information. On the other hand, I also thought that other people would feel the same as I do when they saw some weird changed happened to their wikis. And I felt guilty that I put so many silly stuff on others' wiki webs.
Luckily, Wiki owners are able to delete some usuless information on their web docments. For example, I could delete some information easily from the page history of our wiki. Furthermore, if owners think that it might be annoying to delete every silly information on their wikis, they can go back to the original (or older) version of their wikis. In order to change the wiki onto its original version on PB Wiki, 1) open recent changes page 2) Click "show changes" of one of the oldest version of web document. 3) Click the changed date that is shown on the top of the website. 4) Click "revert to this version". By using these steps, people can go back to its original version without having any problems :)
I think that wikis can be used in many ways. It can be used to: (Class opinions+my own)
-give resources, or information.
-advertisement
-survey
-debate
-create cooperated book
-create class websites/blog
-etc.
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