1. What did wiki software allow Web users to do that the Mosaic browser did not?  

           - the wiki works by allowing users to modify Web pages—not by having an editing tool in their browser but by clicking and typing directly onto Web pages that ran wiki software

         2.What do blogs and wikis have in common?

         -both provide software that is available to anyone. people can modify it and use it

        3.What problem did a young Jimmy Wales find with the World Book Encyclopedia?

          - wales explained that larry's view was that if we didn’t make it more academic than a traditional encyclopedia, people wouldn’t believe in it and respect it

         

        4.How was Jimmy Wales inspired by the World Book Encyclopedia to create Wikipedia?

         -it would be free and volunteers could do it. 

          5.How have encyclopedias inspired you in your own life?

           -it is inspiring because it gives us world information about anything you research. 

         6.Why did Nupedia fail?

        -Nupedia had only about a dozen articles published. it became useless.

           7.How did wiki software change the ideas behind Nupedia?

            -the application of wiki software to Nupedia in order to create Wikipedia—combining two ideas to create an innovation

          8.What is “crowdsourcing?”

          -it is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. 

     9.What do you think about the concept of “any fool in the world” being able to write articles for Wikipedia?

  -i do not like that the wikipedia is able to be edited by any person anywhere. this makes wikipedia unreliable.

10.Do agree with the idea that “total idiots” could edit Wikipedia and of that being a good thing? Explain

  

  -i do not agree with this. there are people out there that change wikipedia to say anything with a topic that does not match the information. it is not a good thing because if anyone could change wikipedia than it is a non reliable source of information. 

11.Why do you think Wikipedia grew so fast and became so popular in such a short amount of time

  

-wikipedia is the first source that pops up on google and it gives simple information. alot of people use it to have the information fast without looking through the web.

      12.Do you believe Sanger’s elitist attitude was a good thing or a bad thing for Wikipedia?

  -i believe this is not a good thing because he was just trying to find the fastest solution to their problem.

13.What did you learn from the anecdote about the Wikipedia article on Einstein going to Albania for a passport in 1935

-i learned that wikipedia can not be reliable all the time. if you are reseaching you need to read everything that is on the resource.

14.Explain this quote from the article: “I can’t imagine who could have written such detailed guidelines other than a bunch of people working together...It’s common in Wikipedia that we’ll come to a solution that’s really well thought out because so many minds have had a crack at improving it.”

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15.The author of the article states that Wikipedia “grew organically.” What does he mean by that?

16.How has Wikipedia “been the greatest collaborative knowledge project in history?” 

17.Based on your own opinion and experience with Wikipedia, do you agree with the above statement or disagree with it? Explain.

18.What does the author mean by “wiki-crack?”

19.Based on the article, do you believe Wikipedia is a reliable source of information?

20.Do you believe its possible for a 16-year-old from New Jersey to write “insightful” Wikipedia articles?

21.How do you feel about basing your own research on something a 16-year-old wrote on Wikipedia

22.What does Jimmy Wales mean by this mission statement: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge?”

23.Do you agree or disagree with this mission statement?

24.Do you think Wikipedia has succeeded in its mission?

-no i do not think wikipedia is successful in its misson. it still has a easy way to be edited by anyone and is not to reliable.

25.Do you agree or disagree that ordinary people, people without degrees, can “be part of the process of creating and distributing knowledge?” 

26.Based on your reading of the article, would you yourself use Wikipedia for your academic research?

27.Would you yourself like to write and/or edit Wikipedia articles in order to be “a part of the process of creating and distributing knowledge?” Why or why not?