Wikiality

Today we started a new project called "Wikiality". It is going to be about investigating wikipedia and finding out whether the information we get it from there is valid or invalid.

Wikipedia is a type of online encyclopedia that all the individuals can put and fix the information on that website. It provides information in different languages so that many nationalities may share the same information with their mother tongue.

Personally I thought that wikipedia was a good research source that I could get all the different types of information easily. Most of the times, Wikipedia helped me to find out and understand information for my projects. However, one of the problems of wikipedia is that all the information can be adjusted by other volunteers. Therefore, there are possibilities that some information are false and are nonsense. Of course there are people who work hard to fix all the false information on Wikipedia, but there are some sources remained as biased.

In this unit, we are going to search for some of wrong information on Wikipedia, and try to adjust it without putting any biased facts. Also, the information should not be published maliciously.

This project is related to principled, one of IB learner profile, since we need to know some principles of using wiki properly. The chosen Areas of Interaction is "Health and Social Education". Even though it is not related to the "heatlh" part, it is closely related to social education since we are learning netiquettes of using wikis.

I think this project is going to be very interesting, since I'm a great fan of using wikipedia, and I would want to learn a lot from this project.