BWP Chapters 4

Chapter 4 is simply titled Wikis and talking about its nuances.  When I heard the term wiki tossed around in this and another of my classes, the first thing I thought about is wikipedia.  I couldn't figure out why we needed to make a wikipedia page but of course that was all my knowledge of anything termed wiki.  I found it rather interesting that in the chapter it said that a purposefully incorrect post on a wikipedia page was corrected and edited to become correct in a matter of hours.  I never thought that a wiki was like a blog version of a live encyclopedia when it comes down to wikipedia.  Oddly enough the chapter points out that people find wikipedia to be the most accurate encyclopedias.  Some other people are more skeptical because of the ability to easily edit posts.  But much like encyclopedias, wikipedia is made up mostly of siting sources.  Wikis are more that just known as wikipedia, but in the classroom teachers and students can create a wiki to list their knowledge on a topic related to a task in class.