About Wikis

What Is A Wiki?

"A wiki is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration," according to Wikipedia -- itself probably the most well-known example of a wiki.

Wikis are public (or semi-public) collaboration spaces, and as such are well-suited to group work. For this class, you'll use the wiki mainly as a tool for group collaboration, although we will use it for some classwide activities as well.

For more information, read Wikipedia's article on the subject.

Important Things to Know About This Wiki

1. This wiki is semi-public, meaning that the general public can read, but not edit, any entry. Therefore, do not put anything on this wiki that you would not be comfortable with the general public seeing.
2. Anyone with the wiki password can edit any entry on this wiki -- in other words, any of the 144 students in IST110/CAS100B, along with the instructors. However, the "History" section of each page not only shows who has edited which entry, but allows earlier versions to be restored. Any malicious editing, therefore, is not in your best interest as it will be quickly discovered, with immediate consequences.
3. This wiki is not hosted through Penn State's servers. It may be available at times when PSU services are down; the opposite may also occur. Plan for technology to fail at inconvenient times, and you will always be ahead of the game.

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