Wk 4 Discussion - What is a Wiki?

Wk 4 Discussion - What is a Wiki?
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Is the advice you find on wikis and Internet forums credible, helpful, and safe? Provide some examples to support your discussion.
Wiki is a collaborative tool that allows students to modify information through open-editing systems. Information provided by wikis is not accurate or reliable. Majority of wikis can be edited by anyone at anytime. As a result, any information contain in wikis at any particular time could be a work in progress or intentionally distorted. Inaccuracy of information is mostly prevalent in subjects related to political figures, contentious cultural aspects, and biographies of living people. The inaccuracy of information occurs because majority of wiki sites are volunteer-run projects, which imply that the operators fail to monitor the contribu...