YansAnalysisandReflection

=Wiki Analysis and Reflection - YanYan Yiu=

My Contributions
This was the first time I have ever posted on a wiki, though I have seen many. Luckily the functions for posting wasn't hard. Even though I did this a week before it was due, I thought my contributions were decent. Of course, if I had more time to think it through and do more research to input in here, the quality would have been greater, as well as the quantity of the work. I first created my own page for one of the chapter summaries of our readings, After that, I went around looking for topics that I had a greater knowledge on and read through if anything was wrong or any information was missing. If I had started this earlier, there would have been more chances for me to add information to the topics but since it was later, most of the information was already posted up by other students. I could see why Professor Mike Jones told us not to do this last minute because there's no way we could have wrote two pages worth of information and add on to others' posts. But, I hope that what I added on is helpful to other students as I find the content of wiki very helpful to me. It was a hassle to link words to other pages but for the ease of the students and community maintenance, I did add links to other pages and external links to information outside of this wiki. Also, when I went around to different pages, I saw that some formatting was wrong and helped to fix it up so it would give a better impression on the reader.

Reflection and Observations
I found it easier to start my own page but it was more enjoyable to add on to other's posts. I didn't like finding all the information to put on the page I created because it took more research time and was boring. But as I go clicking on all these different topics, I recall certain information that I could add on and it was exciting in a way to go around posting random information everywhere on this site. Also, for the purpose of contributing I had to do research for several topics and I learned a lot through this process. Although it has not happened yet, I would be discouraged in a way if someone had deleted my posts cause it was the wrong information even though it would be the right thing to do. Maybe because of this I was hesitant to delete other people's contributions, also because I was unsure if it was wrong or not. As I click through people's spaces to see how many edits people have made, it shocked me to see that some people have over 150 posts, which intimidated me, but they probably worked really hard on it and started earlier. Overall, I am quite surprised with the amount of information the students in our class has put together into this wiki; it is pretty impressive. CCIT205's wikispace is the result of our community build and I can say that I'm proud of it; I'm sure the professors would be as well. =D

Suggestions/Ideas
The only thing I want to stress on is to work on this as soon as it is assigned. Don't think you can leave it last minute because it seems 'easy' cause you'll be messed up in the end with nothing to write about and you'll panic like you're going to fail. Do not only focus on building up your own page, remember to build community. That is really important since this is an online interaction. Keep updated with the site and every few days or so you'll see interesting topics posted by your fellow students that you may want to add on to, which increases the quantity of your edits and posts. Do not hesitate to put information down because if it is wrong, your classmates will fix it for you; this is one of the good parts about being able to edit all works. And no one is going to yell at you or make fun of your contributions so post away and enjoy this assignment! Just don't leave in last minute... is all I have to say. =)