Studio Lab 3 – part 2

Benefits and limitations

Using wiki is a convenient, quick and effective way to collaborate a piece of work. About everyone who has access to the Internet are able to edit a wiki page. Editing a wiki page also requires very little Internet skill and is effective/appropriate for communication among a larger group of people.

Though wiki is a convenient way for users of the Internet to create collaboration entries, I found that creating one good wiki requires much effort as well as good collaboration. In creating a wiki entry, accuracy is the key to its effectiveness as about all the users would be taking the information from each others. Yet, the accuracy on the wiki entry is hard to maintain, because any information in the entry can be changed by anyone at anytime. Another limitation of the wiki is that it requires a good collaboration. Due to the fact that one can edit other’s entries at anytime, bad collaboration can easily lead to frequent change of the information inside the wiki unnecessarily.
Did this experiment work?

No, I believe it does not work very well. The wiki page our class made appears to be hard to follow and hard for browsing looking for certain information. Also, the collaboration of the classmates did not carry out completely. The wiki page appears to be quite unfinished and very little changes are made after the end of the lab.
It seems that wiki requires more that hours of editing. It can be better developed if all the editors get the chance to browse through the entire wiki page.