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Electronic Strategic Business Development assignment 1, due January x, 2005

This assignment is intended to teach you something about collaborative software - and what better way than to use it to learn? Wikipedia is an on-line encyclopedia, written collaboratively (that is, by the readers). It uses wiki technology, and everybody can update everything. Order is maintained by common goals and common behavioral norms.

Assignment: Be advised that this assignment takes time, so a good idea is to start early and work on it intermittently.


 * 1) Register yourself as a user, read some of the documentation about what Wikipedia is and how it is to be used. You will find links to it on the Main Page.
 * 2) While logged in, start editing and writing articles – anything you do will be tracked and the versions saved.  Write on whatever you want, but make sure that you follow the intention of the Wikipedia.
 * 3) Add yourself to the list of students for the GRA8829 course, making sure you use the correct format.  (The intent here is that I should be able to click on each student, and then see what articles the student has worked on. That means it is also a good idea to make sure you are logged in when you edit, so Wikipedia registers your name rather than just your IP address.)
 * 4) Write me a memo, marked with both your name and your Wikipedia user name.  For a total of less than 500 words, answer these questions:
 * 5) What, if anything, surprised you the most about the Wikipedia?
 * 6) What uses can you see for this technology in a corporate setting?  What does it take for it to be successful?
 * 7) For which kind of businesses and technologies can Wikis be a disruptive technology?

Good luck, and welcome to the ‘pedia!

Espen