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EMBA IT management workshop (http://www.espen.com/courses/emba-it) assignment 4, due August 18, 2004
This assignment is intended to teach you something about collaborative software - and what better way than to use it to learn? Wikipedia is an on-line encyclopedia, written collaboratively (that is, by the readers). It uses wiki technology, and everybody can update everything. Order is maintained by common goals and common behavioral norms.
Assignment: Be advised that this assignment takes time, so a good idea is to start early and work on it intermittently.
- Register yourself as a user, read some of the documentation about what Wikipedia is and how it is to be used. You will find links to it on the Main Page.
- While logged in, start editing and writing articles – anything you do will be tracked and the versions saved. Write on whatever you want, but make sure that you follow the intention of the Wikipedia.
- Go to this page (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Espen/emba) and add yourself to the list of students, making sure you use the correct format. (The intent here is that I should be able to click on each student, and then see what articles the student has worked on.)
- Write me a memo, marked with both your name and your Wikipedia user name. For a total of less than 500 words, answer these questions:
- What, if anything, surprised you the most about the Wikipedia?
- What uses can you see for this technology in a corporate setting? What does it take for it to be successful?
- For which kind of businesses and technologies can Wikis be a disruptive technology?
Good luck, and welcome to the ‘pedia!
Espen