Wednesday, November 10, 2010

WIKIS, WIKIPEDIA, WIKILEAKS-Codzamanian, Desroses, Espartero

Multimedia

Eva Codzamanian
Béryl Desroses
Corinne Espartero

Subject: Wikis, Wikipedia, WikiLeaks

A wiki is a website in which a part of people or everyone can create or modify free linked web pages. It’s a collaboration of internet surfers.
The first wiki was created in 1995 by Ward Cunningham and was called WikiWikiWeb.
Wikipedia and WikiLeaks are Wikis.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopaedia and WikiLeaks is an international website about political analysis and societies that publishes unavailable documents from anonymous sources.

Questions:

1) What are the 3 main principles that explain Wikis success?

2) How many pages were existing in 2005?

3) Why is it important to check information from Wikipedia?

4) Wikimedia foundation is an organization that hosts Wikipedia. Give names of other wiki projects hosted by this organization.

5) Why WikiLeaks disturbs the United States, particularly the US Army?


Quiz : ( choose the right answer)

1)      All the information from Wikipedia is true. T / F

2)      There were 100 000 wiki pages in 2005. T / F

3)      You don’t have to pay to access to Wikis. T / F

4)      The first wiki was created by Duke Cunningham. T / F

5) Wiki means “quick” in Hawaiian. T / F

12 comments:

  1. Emilie GACHET
    LEA L2 G2


    Questions:
    1/ The 3 mains principles which explain its success are trust, fun and sharing.
    2/ In 2005 there were existing 30690 pages.
    3/ It is important to check the information from Wikipedia because anyone can posts on this website and they can be "inaccurate, misleading, dangerous, addictive, unethical or illegal".
    4/ The others names of Wiki projects hosted by this organization are: Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki.
    5/ WikiLeaks disturbs the US because it deals about politicals subjects whose should be "secrets" and it is said that the US Army's troops has done abuses in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    Quiz:
    1/ False, anyone can posts
    2/ False, 30690 pages
    3/ True, it is a free website
    4/ False, Ward Cunningham
    5/ True

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  2. RAYAR Alexia
    L2 Group 4

    1) The 3 mains principles that explain Wikis success are trust, fun and sharing.

    2) In 2005 there were 30690 pages.

    3) It is important to check the information from Wikipedia because the people that send information on this website are not always professional, they are not always experts. They're people like us who can do mistakes.

    4) The others names of Wiki projects hosted by this organization are : Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki.

    5) WikiLeaks disturbs the US because it publishes some kind of secret information, that is to say information that the government would like to keep secret. For instance, it is said on Wikileaks that soldiers from the US Army tortured and abused people in Afghanistan and in Iraq.


    Quiz:
    False

    False

    True

    False

    True

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  3. Claro Suma Louise

    Questions:

    1)Wikis are trust, fun and you can share information
    2)In 2005, Wikis represent about 30690 pages
    3)Everybody can add information in Wikis pages and some of them are wrong. you must to check because sometime you read or consult these type of pages to get important information about health (it's not a real doc). moreover Wikis are unreliable because all of information are not save and could became addict.
    4)the other wikis projet could be Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki.
    5)The USA and the US are disturbed by Wikis because as everybody can say what they want, people can criticize the Irak and Afghanistan's war.it's a limit to the censure of the USA.


    Quiz:
    1)False
    2)False
    3)True
    4)False

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  4. Laurène Cieslak
    LEA L2 G2

    Questions
    1) the 3 main principles that explain Wikis success are trust, fun and sharing.

    2) In 2005, it were existed about 30690 pages.

    3) When you look for an information on wikipedia it's a risk because everybody put informations on this site and maybe the information is inaccurate, misleading, dangerous, addictive, unethical or illegal...

    4) Wikimedia foundation is an organization that hosts Wikipedia, other wiki projects hosted by this organization are wiktionary, wikiquote, wikibooks, wikisource, wikimedia commons, wikispecies, wikinews, wikiversity, wikimedia incubator and meta-wiki.

    5) WikiLeaks disturbs the United States, particularly the US Army because with wikileaks the US Army don't have any more the power on the troops in Afghanistant and Irak.

    Quizz
    1) False, because evybody can post on it and put the informations what he wants.

    2) False, there were 30690 pages in 2005.

    3)False, it's a free website.

    4)False, it was Ward Cunningham.

    5) True.

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  5. Thomas Moronenko
    LEA L2 G2

    Questions:

    1/ The 3 main principles that explain wikis success are: trust, fun and sharing.

    2/ In 2005 there were 30690 pages.

    3/ It's important to check the informations because everybody can change the informations on Wikipedia.

    4/ There are 10 other names of wiki projects hosted by this organization : Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, Wikinews, Meta-Wiki, Wikimedia Incubator and Wikiversity.

    5/ WikiLeaks disturbs the US, and particularly the US Army because it publishes " secret informations" about the US Army.

    Quiz:

    1/ False, everybody can
    2/ False, there were 30690 pages
    3/ True, it's free
    4/ False, his name was Ward Cunningham
    5/ True

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  6. 1) The 3 main principles that explain wikis success are trust, fun and sharing.
    2) There were 30690 pages in 2005.
    3) The informations from wikipedia may be inaccurate, misleading, dangerous, addictive, unthical or illegal so to sum up everybody can change the informations from wikipedia.
    4) "Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki" are names of other wikis projet.
    5) WikiLeaks disturbs the US, and particularly the US Army because diclosed informations about the Us Army.

    Quiz
    1) False
    2) False
    3) True
    4) False
    5) True

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  7. Lauriane Flamant
    LEA L2 G2

    1. The three main principle that explain Wikis success are trust, fun and sharing.
    2. In 2005, there were about 30690 pages.
    3. It is important to check the information that you find on Wikipedia because anyone can post information on this website and they are not always professional. Wikipedia cannot guaranteed the truthfulness of the information you can find on their website.
    4. Wikimedia foundation host others web site like Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisources, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity and Meta-Wiki.
    5. WikiLeaks disturbs the United States because anyone can post the information that they want including information that the government would rather keep secret and particularly about the US Army's behavior in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    Quiz:
    1. False
    2. False
    3. True
    4. False
    5. True

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  8. Maxime Lepesant LEA L2 G2


    1) The 3 main principles which explain Wikis success are trust, fun and sharing.

    2) In 2005, 30690 pages were existing.

    3) It's important to check informations from Wikipedia because everybody can post informations in this website, and it's why there can be mistakes.

    4) The names of other wiki projects hosted by this organization are : Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki.

    5) WikiLeaks disturbs the United States, and particularly the US army because the website discloses secret informations, and for example, it discloses abuses in Afghanistan and Irak.

    Quiz :

    1) False, everybody can post informations and mistakes can be written.
    2) False, there were 30690 pages.
    3) True.
    4) False, his name is Ward Cunningham.
    5) True.

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  10. Manon Franconville LEA L2 G2

    1) The 3 main principles of wikis are trust, fun and sharing

    2) In 2005 there were about 30690 pages.

    3) We have to check informations from wikis becaus they can be false as everybody can add something and people who run the wiki are not responsible for what happen if users of the wiki use information.

    4) Name of other wikis :
    - Wikisource
    - Wiktionary
    - Wikiquote
    - Wikibooks

    5) Wikileaks have published a report that showed tortures of US soldiers on Iraqis which means that every users of WikiLeaks have had access to these informations. It is a threat because it can be retaliation against the USA.

    QUIZZ
    1) False
    2) False
    3) True
    4) False
    5) True

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  11. Sonia Bekioui LEA L2 G2

    1) The 3 main principles that explain Wikis success are trust, fun and sharing.

    2) There were 30 690 pages in 2005.

    3) It's important to check informations from Wikis because anyone can post informations on Wikis. So you can write what you want about somebody or something. So informations are not always true.

    4) The other names are : Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikimedia Incubator and Meta-Wiki.

    5) WikiLeaks disturbs the US because it publishes documents, informations which should be secret. The government wants to keep confidential some informations for example about the behavior of the US army in Irak or in Afghanistan.Wikis want to fight against censure but it can be dangerous whent it deals with war.

    Quizz:

    1) False
    2) False
    3) True
    4) False
    5) True

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  12. 1/ Wiki success is due to his simple utlisation, it's open to everyone and it's incremental.
    2/ In 2005, there were about 30690 pages.
    3/ We can use Wikipedia but we have to be careful and to check those informations because sometimes the informations are wrong because everyone can decide to note some things on it and it can be false.
    4/ There are many wiki projects like Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, and many others.
    5/ Wikileaks said that it have some proves that some US soldiers made physical abuses on the local population of Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Quiz:

    1/ False
    2/ False
    3/ True
    4/ True
    5/ False

    YASSINE Bouchra

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