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hi -- your Mass comm 101-7 article has been marked for deletion; it is clearly not an article, but an experiment. For experimenting, please use the Sandbox, where you can try anything you want. thanks, and welcome to wikipedia. bikeable (talk) 01:11, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

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From Mass comm 101-7
Mass Communications 101-7 Towson University

Instructor: Prof. JoAnne Broadwater

Created by Valerie Dubinsky and Jimmy Marousek

A wiki is a type of website that allows users to easily add and edit content and is especially suited for collaborative writing. The term itself comes from the Hawaiian phrase “wiki wiki” which translates to “quick”. Anagram for What I know is.

Servers located in Florida and four other locations around the world

This article does not meet the criteria for insertion at this time. This information may be of use in existing articles, such as Wikipedia. The articles has been deleted. xaosflux Talk  / CVU  03:42, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia's slogan is "The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", and the project is described by its co-founder Jimmy Wales as "an effort to create and distribute a multilingual free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language."

The authors need not have any expertise or formal qualifications in the subjects which they edit, and users are warned that their contributions may be "edited mercilessly and redistributed at will" by anyone who so wishes.

By the nature of its openness, "edit wars" and prolonged disputes often occur when editors do not agree.

When Wikipedia articles are first published, they show up on a special page, and volunteers--so-called new-page patrollers--monitor entries in their area of interest.

Wikipedia's status as a reference work has been controversial since its open nature allows vandalism, inaccuracy, inconsistency, uneven quality, and unsubstantiated opinions. It has also been criticized for systemic bias, preference of consensus or popularity to credentials, and a perceived lack of accountability and authority when compared with traditional encyclopedias.

As a result of recent vandalism, editing of this page by new or anonymous users is temporarily disabled. Changes can be discussed on the talk page, or you can request unprotection.

“Any information can be changed or deleted by anyone. Wiki pages represent consensus because it’s much easier to delete flames and spam than indulge them. What remains is naturally meaningful.” “Anyone can play. This sounds like a recipe for low signal - Wiki gets hit by the great unwashed as often as any other site - but to make an impact on Wiki, you need to generate real content. Anything else will be removed. So anyone can play, but only good players last.”