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This 3-page paper analyzes the wiki Scholarpedia.org. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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people can put their own opinions and thoughts on various topics (through blogs and other sources). A recent addition to the Internet is
that of the wiki. In this paper, well examine a particular wiki called Scholarpedia.org. But first it would be a good idea
to understand what, exactly, a wiki website is. In its most basic sense, a wiki is a website propelled by users - in other words, it allows users to add
and update content via their own web browser (Wiki, 2009). Wikis, in other words, are websites created through a collaborative efforts between site visitors, and comes from a Hawaiian phrase,
"wiki, wiki," which means "super fast" (Wiki, 2009). Users are able to add their own content, thanks to special Wiki software that runs on the sites web server (Wiki, 2009).
The wiki well discuss today, as mentioned above, is Scholarpedia.org. This is a wiki that describes itself as a "peer-reviewed, open-access encyclopedia" that
is written by various scholars worldwide, and in a variety of disciplines (Scholarpedia.org, 2009). The purpose of Scholarpedia is to share information with others, but, as the editor-in-chief of the
wiki puts it, unlike a scholarly journal, articles on Scholarpedia are dynamic, with updates allowed (assuming the curator says its okay) - basically, the information in such articles is updated
and fresh, as curators (and their reading public) learn new information about a particular topic (Scholarpedia.org, 2009). Scholarpedia describes itself as a "peer-reviewed
encyclopedia" that solicits content from leading experts in their respective fields (Scholarpedia.org, 2009). Rather than publishing "research," the wiki publishes what it calls "living reviews" (Scholarpedia.org, 2009).
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