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Wikipedia's Pro's and Con's

Sources:

“Infrastructure and Wiki Pedagogy: A Multi-Case Study” by Thomas Sura

“Wikipedia's Politics of Exclusion: Gender, Epistemology, and Feminist Rhetorical (In)action”  by Leigh Gruwell

“Wikipedia Use in Research: Perception in Secondary Schools” by Tracy Polk

“Rethinking Wikipedia for the Classroom” by Piotr Konieczny

Experiments:

Topic 1: Rodeo

Reason for choice: High Traffic

Created 11/23/15 1:30 pm

Changes made were: Location of Origin, Skills needed to perform in the rodeo, noticeable year changes. For example, 1872 was changed to 1972.

Changes were corrected 11/23/15 2:00 pm Approx. Time 30 Minutes.

Topic 2: Festivus

Reason of Choice: Low Traffic

Created 11/23/15 1:45

Changes made were: Minor year changes, a few of the years were changed by one year.

Changes were corrected 11/23/15 2:00 Approx. Time 15 Minutes.

Topic 3: Edith Roosevelt

Reason for Choice: High Traffic

Created:  11/21/15 2:00 pm

Changes made:  We changed the year by one digit, minor change.

Changes were NOT Corrected: Last checked 11/30/15 1:45 pm

Pros: Bullet 2 (Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikitavel, MediaWiki.)

Wikibooks= Google books- This is equivalent to online readings, or ebooks.

Wikiquote= Google quotes of the day.