Using+wikis+in+research

Wikis for large research projects create a separate page for each chapter, subtopic of your research, loose notes you can use pages to embed other media, such as photos, audio, video, downloadable documents like DOC or PDF, powerpoint (using slideshare or voicethread),

Here's a video from Common Craft to get you started:

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wikis for collaborative research With a wiki, several people can see each other's work to make sure that

scroll down for a special section about Wikipedia

Wikipedia is a wiki, but is extremely unusual because of its size, the huge number of editors, and the even huger number of passive readers.

Wikipedia is a great place to start your research, but a terrible place to develop your research. It's like a cup of coffee in the morning. It wakes you up and gets you started on your day, but too much isn't healthy for you. Wikipedia's a great way to dive into a topic and get a general idea of the concepts related to that topic.

Read Wikipedia articles, but don't copy/paste. Don't ever use it as a source in your research papers (unless your research is about Wikipedia)

Read the discussion tab. That will give you an idea how much the editors disagree with each other. If there is a lot of disagreement, or even argument, it is possible that editors are changing each other's work on the article, and there's no way for you to know when a section of the article is correct, and when it is not. If people accuse each other of being sock puppets and meat puppets, run.

Read the history tab. Every article will have a lot of activity when it is first created. If there is still a lot of activity, especially by many different editors, the article could still be instable: either still in progress, or controversial.

Use the external links to start finding real sources.