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Question 1

What is microblogging?

Answer 1

A form of broadcast communication that is similar to blogging. The key difference is that smaller portions of content are shared on microblogs
Microblogging platforms include:
- Twitter
- Instagram
- Tik Tok
- Pinterest

Question 2

What are advantages and disadvantages of Wikipedia?

Answer 2

Advantages:
- Everyone can access and contribute to Wikipedia
- Easy to use
- Quick to develop material
- Enormous amount of topics and information available
Disadvantages:
- No direct quality control
- Bias in some articles
- Information changes rapidly
- Vandalism is a real problem

Question 3

What are the automated and manual systems Wikipedia has for addressing vandalism?

Answer 3

Bots: vandalism is automatically detected and reverted by a bot called ClueBot NG

Recent change patrol: a group of people monitor the Recent Changes pages to modify or remove vandalism
- Can also modify or remove edits that don’t meet Wikipedia’s standards

Watchlists: registered users can watch a page that they have created/edited or are interested in, allowing them to watch for vandalism

Reader-reported vandalism: readers can address vandalism by:
- Reverting to an older version of the page
- Warning the vandal that their actions have been noted
- Report the vandal to Wikipedia administration

Question 4

Wiki markup: how to separate paragraphs?

Answer 4

A new line is ignored while a blank line creates a new paragraph (two line spaces in order to separate a paragraph)

Question 5

Wiki markup: how to create headings?

Answer 5

adding an additional = for each heading:
Four levels of headings:
=Main heading=
==Section heading==
===Subsection heading===
====Sub-subsection heading====

Question 6

Wiki markup: how to format texts?

Answer 6

add “ each time:
Emphasis
‘‘Emphasized Text’’
Strong
‘'’Strong Text’’’
Very Strong
‘’’'’Emphasized and Strong’’’’’

Question 7

Wiki markup: What are the type of links?

Answer 7

Internal links: used to link to other pages in the wiki
[[name of page]]
[[User:achi219]]

External links: used to link to other webpages
External link:
URL
http://…

Question 8

Wiki: Why do we add labels to links?

Answer 8

So that they’re easier for readers to understand
Internal link:
[[name of page | label]]
[[User:mjia058 | Michelle]]

External link:
[URL label]
[http://… UoA]

Question 9

Wiki markup: What are two kinds of lists?

Answer 9

Unordered lists:
Use the * character in front of each list item
Use multiple * to create sub-lists

Ordered lists:
Use the # character in front of each list item
Use multiple # to create sub-lists

Question 10

Activity: What kind of Wikipedia articles are more likely to be accurate?

Answer 10

Academic topics

Question 11

What is the key difference between blogs and micro-blogs?

Answer 11

Length of content

Question 12

To create an ordered list in a Wiki, what keyboard character do you use?

Answer 12

#

Question 13

What would the following wiki markup look like when viewed in a web browser?

The Summer School lectures are:
#[[User:dazh001 | Damir]]
#Reuel
##He doesn’t have a user page !
#[http://www.citr.auckland.ac.nz/~angela/ Angela]

Answer 13

Result

The Summer School lecturers are:

1. Damir
2. Reuel
   
   1. He doesn’t have a user page!
3. Angela