How to Wiki

This week in class we learned about Wikis. A wiki is a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users. A wiki can be made for any topic, job, community, etc. For our course, the instructor created our own wiki page for us to work on, but there are already plenty out there. Do you have a favorite TV show or book series? if so, there is more than likely a wiki out there for it. I could spend days combing through the Marvel Wiki.

For our assignment we were to edit a page on Wikipedia, a enormous wiki that covers a variety of topics. Though you probably shouldn't cite Wikipedia as a source on a paper, it's a great way to gather background knowledge on a topic. I edited the Owingsville, Kentucky wiki, because that is where I went to high school. I added a bit about a community tradition there, the May Day Pageant. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owingsville,_Kentucky)

 It's fairly simple, after creating an account you can simply click "edit source" and then add or erase any information you want. But don't get too power hungry, there are people who monitor changes.

Overall, wikis seem to be easily accessible and effective. They contain a lot of information and allow users to edit and add content as they please.