Creating Wiki Page

First I would like to say that I enjoyed creating a wikihow. It was my first time and technology wise it was a good experience. It wasn’t hard to do mainly because the hardest part was for my partner and to create a topic that wikihow didn’t already have. My partner and I were trying to figure out what we had in common and as females generally do it’s shopping. What is comfortable and what is not. So we first sat and pondered about it and finally we came up with the topic “How to find the right pair of snow boots”. Granted that we are attending school that we do need all the snow gear we can possibly need. I thought it was awesome topic because when I first started attending Buffalo State College, the main question was always what to put on my feet when it gets cold.

It was a very cool experience. My partner Heather and I worked as a team to come up with topics and different ideas to make this wikihow a 1,000 words. We thought of the different variety of boots that we have to wear for snow boots. We thought of pros and cons of the boots. Such as the price range, how to take care of the boots and when to even wear them. We broke up into categories of expertise and amazingly it tied together with no problem. Our parts that we had written went very well together that it was as if one of us wrote it.

When we met in class we knew what we were going to write and how. Then we exchanged numbers. The next day we met up in the library and copied and pasted our thoughts together. We re-read it to make sure our thoughts came together and we high-fived each other. We were so happy.

As we discussed previously in class, wikis has many down falls that can inflect your opinion on it. Like for me personally I don’t like the fact that you can change or edit information. Okay, yes it is suppose to be a place where people can make an input but it’s like where is the line being drawn. I noticed on my wikihow they put how it is not a wikihow and maybe shut down. Who are they to tell me that it isn’t telling someone how to buy a pair of snow boots without writing steps with number.

I would love to make inputs on wikis but I don’t know how much time I can invest in it. If I don’t like the fact that other people changed information, I wouldn’t change it.