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Wikis: -Wiki: A website developed by a community of users together, allowing users to add and edit content.

-How a wiki works: A wiki works by people adding information about things they know. Also, people can search into a wiki made by other people, if they want to learn something.

-What are the benefits of a wiki: The benefits of wikis are that they provide a simple and fast way to learn information. Also, if you know a lot of information about a subject, you can explain it to other people in an easy way. Wikis are also free, and you can make new friends with similar interests over wikis.

-Drawbacks:The drawbacks of wikis are that since everyone can edit a wiki, sometimes they have invalid information. Also, if you share information, everyone can see it since there isn't any privacy.

-Some consequences of Wikis are that if some people disagree with your information, they could argue against it and argue against you which is never fun. Also, if you get wrong information from a wiki, and put it in a project or report, your grade on that project could severely drop. Lastly, since wikis have a surplus of information on a subject, people who are looking for information will want to plagiarize from it.

-Why it's important to be responsible when using a wiki: It's important to be responsible while using a wiki because you could get in big trouble for plagiarizing from it. Also, you have to be responsible to know when information is wrong.

-Some common wikis are Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Mediawiki, Wikia, Wikisource.