W(iki) Marco!
Hello everybody!
This time I am going to speak a little about wikis.
Wiki is a social software in which people can find information simply by clicking on the site and searching in it. This Information can be changed by authors or can be edited and modified by people after the subscription to the site: it is in this way designed as to be a community.
So therefore, about the type of audience of the site, I can say that it is theoretically open to anybody, in the sense that any net surfer looking for information can enter and have it immediately in most areas of a wiki. On the other hand, there are often some restricted wikis as well: since (as I am going to say in the next paragraph!) people can create their own communities through the creation of new wikis, one can give their community the characteristic of a free, public wiki, or might also give it the characteristics of a private link of communication between a restricted number people creating it as a chat or a list of web mail, thus creating a private wiki.
Surely, the most well known wiki is Wikipedia but actually it is much more. One can find a lot of different wikis that may have the form of communities dealing with many different sorts of interest (including, for example, a Swedish community about Nintendo!) or you can create your own wiki thanks to some "tailor made" options you can find in the resume about wiki farms. , which is a server or a collection of servers that hosts wiki. Therefore one can say that the wikisphere is like a little universe of its own rather than just one site with different contents.
Even if wiki is opened to all surfers like a forum or a site of a public institution and even if in many parts of a wiki seems to me structured like a blog, in my opinion the language used in it is much more formal than the language often used in blogs but it can be very similar to the language used in the second type of sites I mentioned. Since a wiki is often opened to anybody the language used in it can vary depending on the style and characteristics of the person who writes in it, assumed that one has to follow rules of good sense. Some of these rules are also summarized on a page of the site that Sarah advised us to read: the site calls them "wikiquettes".
Moreover, a wiki is characterised by the fact that there are many links that are present in texts and at the bottom of the pages, so one can find an explanation for everything, sometimes even to the very word present in the text that he/she may not know. It is worth saying that, because of its structure, a wiki also has a search engine that provides links to others pages in the same site (or others one as well!)
Goodbye everybody,
Marco
This time I am going to speak a little about wikis.
Wiki is a social software in which people can find information simply by clicking on the site and searching in it. This Information can be changed by authors or can be edited and modified by people after the subscription to the site: it is in this way designed as to be a community.
So therefore, about the type of audience of the site, I can say that it is theoretically open to anybody, in the sense that any net surfer looking for information can enter and have it immediately in most areas of a wiki. On the other hand, there are often some restricted wikis as well: since (as I am going to say in the next paragraph!) people can create their own communities through the creation of new wikis, one can give their community the characteristic of a free, public wiki, or might also give it the characteristics of a private link of communication between a restricted number people creating it as a chat or a list of web mail, thus creating a private wiki.
Surely, the most well known wiki is Wikipedia but actually it is much more. One can find a lot of different wikis that may have the form of communities dealing with many different sorts of interest (including, for example, a Swedish community about Nintendo!) or you can create your own wiki thanks to some "tailor made" options you can find in the resume about wiki farms. , which is a server or a collection of servers that hosts wiki. Therefore one can say that the wikisphere is like a little universe of its own rather than just one site with different contents.
Even if wiki is opened to all surfers like a forum or a site of a public institution and even if in many parts of a wiki seems to me structured like a blog, in my opinion the language used in it is much more formal than the language often used in blogs but it can be very similar to the language used in the second type of sites I mentioned. Since a wiki is often opened to anybody the language used in it can vary depending on the style and characteristics of the person who writes in it, assumed that one has to follow rules of good sense. Some of these rules are also summarized on a page of the site that Sarah advised us to read: the site calls them "wikiquettes".
Moreover, a wiki is characterised by the fact that there are many links that are present in texts and at the bottom of the pages, so one can find an explanation for everything, sometimes even to the very word present in the text that he/she may not know. It is worth saying that, because of its structure, a wiki also has a search engine that provides links to others pages in the same site (or others one as well!)
Goodbye everybody,
Marco
posted by marco @ 12:55 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:04 AM,
Annalisa said…
Hi Marco!
I've read your analysis of Wikis and I have to say that you discovered three interesting WIKIsites!!Thanks to your last choice I've uderstood something about WikiFarms, a concept that I found in my readings about the Wikisphere but that was not so clear in my mind!
I just want to give you a suggestion: maybe, besides the list of the features of a Wikis,you should also explain something more concerning the goals and the utility(or ,anyway, your own impressions) of this type of social software!
That's all for the moment!
See you soon.
Annalisa
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