Wiki

- Edited within web browser
- Intuitive linking (Yay!)
- Wiki text and restricted use of htm
- Thorough logging

The idealised form of ‘participatory culture’:
everyone online can participate but don’t have to.
(Wikis are probably the avatar of ‘Web 2.0’) [lecture ppt]
- Closest form of web2.0 - freedom of information
- Deeply hypertextual - links to refered items... can follow research trail

Collective intelligence -Levy, P.
Network of collective information = limitless information.
not everyone knows everything, but together everyone knows a helluva lot.

Buzz words surrounding wikis, describing what wikis can do "wisdom of crowds" "crowd sourcing" etc

Watchlist - rss/email of changes made to subscribed articles
Rollbacks - roll back changes/vandalisms

Wikipedia works on the passion of the people involved. Interested people will keep articles up to date / clean. Otherwise articles can be left stagnant.

Almost anyone can edit - different levels of protection against changes.

clay shirky - proposed edit - always subject to review - publish then filter.
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Penguin, New York, 2008, pp. 139-40.

wikia... collective wiki host/source

http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/11/collective_intelligence_vs_the.html

edited wikipedia... interesting to think that there is so much information on there that isn't complete... wikipedia has an aura of 'not quite academic, but it has all the answers' so to go and play in it and edit an article... and add an entire section... sort of blows my mind. Just shows that, that particular subject isn't really too popular... but then again that doesn't surprise me.