1/3. Wikipedia is a collaboration tool used to create stores of knowledge and cohesive narratives
You can use Wikipedia to:
- Construct information collaboratively
- See the "history" of the constructive work
- use links to connect information/pages of relevant work
- Many people can work on one idea at different times and places
2. Who uses Wikipedia?
There is no set demographic of user but different users may use "micro-wikis" in different ways
4. Disadvantages
- Progression is linear
- last post/last truth
- wiki-whacking
- flame wars
- questions of authority