JTicar

Summary of Contributions
At the start of the wikispaces assignment, I began with the creation of the "Issues in P2P" topic. What followed were rounds of confusion (since I wasn't sure what to write, so I left the P2P topic as a stub), until I found the article on surveillance that I added onto in a minor way. What followed was a series of minor edits, until I saw the RFID and Online Gaming articles that I also edited.

Reflections and Observations
One of the main things that I can reflect on about this assignment was its complicated nature that somehow worked itself out into a comprehensible mini-CCIT encyclopedia of sorts. There are some downsides to it though, in that many people have a really high number of edits for tiny things like spelling mistakes. This sometimes makes it difficult to sift through the history of a page and find the really significant changes that were made. Collaborative writing does have its' upsides though, and that is that there aren't many things that won't go unnoticed by a large class of people. In a way, this helps to cut down on errors and mistakes that can be made.

Suggestions
Something that I would suggest to CCIT students who are doing this assignment in the following years is: don't procrastinate. This is namely because all the topics that are broad (that is, the topics that are easy to locate sources for) will be taken in a short amount of time. This leaves the sorry procrastinator to write on an obscure topic, which might have many scholarly sources to turn to, but at the same time will be really boring. This encourages a massive amount of boredom, which in turn, will make the writing of an article almost impossible. I found that it was easier to write on topics of interest to me, instead of having to slog through boring articles on something that I didn't find amusing.

One last thing I would suggest for Wiki users (or for collaborative work in general) is to spell check, and make sure that articles sound grammatically correct. Other then that...have fun?