Wikis

My preliminary project for this master was about community and the power of networking. I put up a Forum where I posted all the different aspects connected to this where one of the themes I went in to was Wikis.
Wikis is an very interesting model here´s the description from Wikipedia.org, an online encyclopedia, the biggest and most known wiki.:
A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] or [ˈwiː.kiː][1]) is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, and edit content.[2] A collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites, the first wiki (WikiWikiWeb) was developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s.[3][4] Wikis allow for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.[5] Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is one of the best known wikis.[4]

Open-source wikis (such as Wikipedia) have been criticized for their reliability: certain individuals may maliciously introduce false or misleading content.[4] Proponents rely on their community of users who can catch malicious content and correct it. Wikis in general make a basic assumption of the goodness of people.[4]

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