Week 7, Exercise 16

I never knew before that Wikipedia was so open to anyone adding their two cents. Not that I've had much desire to use Wikipedia, but I've seen other people use it and it seems useful for looking up "new" slang. I think the wiki concept is used more than realized. For example if you read an article on YahooNews, people put their opinions and add other comments and sometimes the original writer will respond to a comment. So, it seems to me that Wiki's are kind of like an on-line conversation or a blog and some people are going to say alot and some people will just listen. I can see the value of wiki's for libraries in terms of book reviews. People might be more likely to read a book if they get more than one perspective.