Level One :
What is a wiki? What is it used for?
Where does the word wiki come from? Why does this meaning apply to the way it is used and applied?
Wiki is a dynamic site where all the visitors can edit the different pages of this site, and add content as on an internet forum. It is used for the work in group, the collaborative work, and use the knowledge of the world to complete the web site. Wikipedia.org is a wiki’s web site.
In essence, the wiki is merely a vast simplification of the process of creating HTML pages, and thus is an effective way to exchange information through collaborative effort.
The name wiki come from Hawaiian language “wiki wiki” who’s mean “fast”. There is a relation because with a wiki web site we can edit a web site very faster.
Level Two:
What is the best known application of wiki on the internet?
www.wikipedia.org Is the best example of the success of the wiki system.
Do you use it, when and how?
I use it, to find some definition. But some times it isn’t the good definition. We must use wkipédia with others resources.
Why is it helpful to you?
It’s fast to find any answers.
Why does it have such a strong international impact? What is inherent in it that makes international diffusion faster?
There is an international impact with this technology because it is the dream of internet: All it’s possible, all it’s free and we can speak with everybody all over the world. With the wiki, everybody can give its meaning, point of view. It is no need to create a web site, host it and promote it.
On an other hand there is the concept of the community which is very present on the web. With the wiki we have the imagination that we are on a community … the community of the knowledge!
Level Three
Choose a subject from this application and propose an edit for a page and subject that you are familiar with. Do not vandalize the actual page, but suggest a real edit. Explain what subject you would like to edit and post your discussion of that edit on your blog. For this level, the words and page that you propose to edit can be from the French edition.
Level Four:
What new use of a wiki could propose? How would you apply this to a learning situation, for example?
It could be interesting to create a wiki web site for the journalists. All of them could write on every subject on the world without any political or economical pressures. It could be called : The WikiWorldPaper.
Level Five:
Find another application that exists on the web other than the popular one mentioned in level two.
http://wikira.bbclone.de/ This web site proposes to write book. Everybody can add his content and make a chapter of the novel.
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