A wiki is a website that allows a variety of authors to collaborate and edit a website's contents. Wikis have been around for some time, but to be honest, I've never really been impressed. I took the time to review all of the wiki resources and suggested sites recommended by my professor, and I have to say, I'm really not any more impressed than I was before the lesson. After watching the video, Wiki in Plain English, I could see that there may be some collaborative value in a site like this, but in my opinion, there are just so many more modern, engaging ways to present information. For the most part, I find Wiki sites to be disorganized, they have too much information on a page, and I almost always question the reliability of information. Even if I have found a tidbit of knowledge on a Wiki page, I am going to make a distinct effort to verify that information.
The wiki that I enjoyed the most was The Book Lovers Wiki. I'm an avid reader and truly enjoy learning about books from other avid readers. This wiki was organized well, but like other wiki pages, information was overpacked on the page and the presentation was not terribly appealing. Because the topic interested me, I was able to look past some of that and find some great a few books to add to my pleasure reading list.
Overall, wikis can be an effective environment for collaborative thinking and sharing of ideas, but in my opinion, it is not an adequate source for gathering reliable facts.
Betty, I'm adding the link to my blog here (https://mrsos16things.blogspot.com/) only because my post about Wikis is almost exactly like yours and I didn't see yours until just now! I feel the same way. I find Wikis to be relatively unreliable and have an appearance of clutter. I did, just like you, like the Book Lovers Wiki because I could see the benefit of that particular concept.
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