Challenge : Level 1, 2 & 3

Level One:

What is a wiki? What is it used for?
It’s a group of Web pages that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum but also permits others (often completely unrestricted) to edit the content. A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated. Wikis generally are designed with the philosophy of making it easy to correct mistakes, rather than making it difficult to make them.

Where does the word wiki come from? Why does this meaning apply to the way it is used and applied?
From hawaiien "wiki-wiki", which means "fast". The term wiki refers to the collaborative software (wiki engine) used to create website.

Level Two

What is the best known application of wiki on the internet?
Wikipédia

Do you use it, when and how?
I use it when I can’t find on Internet a right definition, when I want to have a “neutral point of view" under which notable perspectives are summarized without an attempt to determine an objective truth.

Why is it helpful to you?
I use it also when I want to have clear explanation, because most of the time, it’s not a professional person who write. (Even if Wikipedia's status as a reference work has been controversial. Its open nature allows vandalism, inaccuracy, and opinion. It has also been criticized for systemic bias, preference of consensus to credentials, and a perceived lack of accountability and authority when compared with traditional encyclopedias)

Why does it have such a strong international impact? What is inherent in it that makes international diffusion faster?
Wikipedia's slogan is "The Free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit", and the project is described by its founder Jimmy Wales as "an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language." : It’s internet ideal situation: everybody everywhere in the world can help each other, as if it was a community.

Level Three

Choose a subject from this application (Level Two) and propose a edit for a page and subject that you are familiar with. Do not vandalize the actual page, but suggest a real edit. Explain what subject you would like to edit and post your discussion of that edit on your blog. For this Level, the words and page that you propose to edit can be from the French edition.

I am familiar with journalism school , ESJ, and I saw that they hadn’t any information on Wikipédia, so I wrote a description of the school (with their information on their website) , in French:

« Fondée en 1899, l'Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme est la doyenne mondiale des écoles de journalisme. Elle s'enorgueillit d'êtreà la pointe de l'enseignement des médias: de la formation sur ordinateur au travail en studio Radio et T.V. en passant par l'étude des nouveaux médias. Chaque étudiant de l'Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme est formé pour être opérationnel dans un univers de la communication en pleine évolution. Le corps professoral de l'Ecole est presqu'exclusivement constitué de journalistes professionnels et de professeurs d'université. Son diplôme de fin d'études est homologué par l'Etat au niveau II (Maîtrise). »