Monday, July 16, 2007

Week 7, Thing 17: Wiki Sandbox

This was a pretty neat page. I like wiki's a lot, and this one was very easy to maneuver through. It really is fun to be able to reach in and play around with a page. "Add an image here, some text there. Oh, wait. Let's italicize the text because it's a title."

I have to say, I'm a fan of all things wiki. I'm a frequent contributer to Wikipedia, mostly in their articles about comic books and comic book characters. Sure, it can get frustrating sometime. You could spend a good hour cleverly crafting an ingenious biography of Batman during the 1980, only to have some tool come along and delete it because he or she thinks it doesn't fit in the article. But, there is mediation. Granted, those can become heated cyber-arguements. Although wikipedia is pretty good with the ground rules (no name calling, civil discussions, please, no mass-deletions out of spite), I've seen some arguements get downright nasty. So much so that an administrator has to lock the page for awhile to let people cool off. But, that just goes to show how passionate some people can be about their wiki contributions.

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