Collective Wiki Reflection

Creating a collective Wiki turned out to be a fun exercise. Although, the need to keep it in a professional and academic form slowed down its development a little, but overall I would say it was a success. One of the downsides though, was a limit in time to complete the research. Having used scholarly approved sources prompted a careful choice of words and sentence structures, so that not much of an editing was required. Writing a research is always somewhat biased. Having to do this research on my own, I would choose different form and writing style. Breadth and depth would most likely depend on my own experience with the subject, or without such, the knowledge I would get from academic sources compared to not so academic sources. I would structure it differently, basing the research on examples, going from the greatest, like the Internet, to the smallest ones and discussing their differences and social aspects. The example that I would particularly pay more attention to would be the use of forums and collective blogs as a successful mean of crowd sourcing, based on personal experience. Having to work in a group and again, with the time limit, forced us to stick with the point format, which was pretty much simply answering the questions, without any additional or side information on the topic. Luckily we did not have any arguments and disagreements on the topic, otherwise, being in the same room and expressing different opinions could cause some troubles. Similar to the video example we saw in the lecture about Wiki on British Bombings, when the page was completely emptied by someone who disagreed or simply did not like it, we too, had a moment when a page was deleted while being edited.