Go onto Wikipedia and find an article about a topic of interest to you.

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Go onto Wikipedia and find an article about a topic of interest to you. Note the title of the article you chose in your response. Click the “View history” tab – this lists the revisions made to the page. If you are not familiar with how to read/understand this list, see the Wikipedia help article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_history. Take a few minutes to look at the list and become familiar with the features, and click on the “Revision History Statistics” link to learn more about the history of this page. Note the following:

1. How recently was the last edit made?
2. About how often are edits made to this article?
3. Are there any users who appear to edit this page on a regular basis? (Note their usernames or, if anonymous, their IP addresses.
4. Anything else you discovered or of note?

Go back to the article and click on the “Talk” tab on the left – this is a wiki version of a discussion board, where users discuss what is in the article. (If there is nothing there, it may have been recently archived. Click the number 1 next to “Archives” to see what the talk page most recently looked like). Read through this page and write down the following:

1. What types of things are being discussed? The topic, the article, both? Something else?
2. Is there evidence of knowledge sharing (i.e. are there debates going on, are people presenting diverse perspectives or viewpoints)? If so, describe it.
3. What have you learned about how knowledge is produced, and disseminated, through Wikipedia? How is this different than a professionally produced encyclopedia?
4. What do you think about the fact that people are doing all of this work for free, without getting paid class concept examples
5. • Competition: With such an active audience, grassroots creativity, and mass amateurization, today we get a lot MORE. More information, more content, more ideas, more thoughts, and more perspectives; so professionals working in the
   • Quality: While the above three concerns are, in a way, selfish ones for media professionals to have, this one is a bit nobler. Professional media is of a high quality, the people in these professions have training and are highly skilled, and there are certain standards and practices that they are expected to adhere to. If the media professions were to go away and all media was in some way amateur, we would lose all of that high quality content.

Conclude with a summary paragraph, making 2-3 connections to the week’s readings and concepts and explaining how they applied to this activity. Describe any other thoughts you had about this assignment, including any struggles you might have had with this activity or making connections to class readings. heres some class concepts