Yuan-Sheng+Chien+-+Analysis+and+Reflection

=__Contributions__=

The contributions that I have made to the ccit 205 wiki space are a few. First and foremost, I have created the page "Pros and Cons of

the New Digital World". I have edited it a few times, adding pictures and rewording some parts and adding texts. I also have it listed under

the Table of contents. Still not satisfied, I have also edited the navigation bar, and placed this topic under "topics of interest" for people to

see and edit. This makes it easier for other people to notice, since there are alot of posts in table of contents, and the chance of someone

clicking on your page is far smaller than putting it under the navigation "topics of interest".

=__**Reflections**__=

Looking back to the start of this course, when I first heard the term wiki space and wikipedia, I had no idea what they meant, therefore

have never experienced it. I was scared of it at first thought, thinking it would be rather difficult to work on something that I have never

touched upon before, and seeing a few of my classmates already knows about it, I also worry about the fact that I might fall behind. Yet, to

my surprise, wiki space was a blast for me. Not only was it way easier than I thought it would be, but also that allowing everyone to

contribute to the space community and also edit every content was truly amazing. This will let people have the feel that they are needed

and their contributions are important for everyone to read. This is a great idea that gets everyone involved together, sort of like working on a

project, but instead of working with only mabye 2-4 people, you get to work with everyone who has access to the community space. Thus,

this broadens the horizon for the contents and different interests arise as a result of many individuals who think differently.

=**Suggestions for further improvements**=

One of the major things that I felt really needed improvement is that I noticed many people just went to pages randomly and deleted a

space or added a space or two, and that counts as an edit. Some people even added things that are not even relevant to the topic. This

explains why some people have over 100+ page edits. I am not saying that everyone did that, but its just that I noticed a fair amount who

did that and it disrupted the whole purpose of wiki space. They are just trying to get as many page edits as possible while not even putting

in any effort and contributing anything. They should have some requirements in editing, for example like you can't just add or delete a

space, or just add a word and it doesn't even make sense into the sentence. This would limit their page edits and makes it easier for the

marker to see what this person has edited. So in the end the marker wouldn't have to go through all the 100+ page edits the person has

done, only to find out about 90% of them were only adding a word or deleting a space. Other than this trend that occured to me while I was

using wiki, other things were quite minor and not as serious as this. Overall, this was a really good experiement for me to get to know wiki,

and I would recommend this lab again to new classes. This is also an opportunity to get to know different ideas out there, as in the real

work force, while working together to create something of value that can be shared by everyone.