October 20 Question #2

I think we do need to organize our work by assigning people into certain tasks or subjects. Organization in any way will always point a group effort twards succsess. Looking breifly at the day the class created a wiki, there was no organization and the information was scattered. The types of information, the amount of information in each catergory, and the amount of people writting on a specific topic was completley unknown. This happens because no organization is present in the class wiki. By organizing the class into groups such as sports, acedemics, greek life, majors, ect. the information will become more balanced and the quality of that information will also increase. Instead of having a large group of students writing about multiple topics, the wiki will now contain an organized list of topics and an in depth amount of information concerning each topic. These facts are also supported by the wiki itself. For example, when analyzing the class wiki I noticed a small amount of informaion concerning "Arabic Population," while I found more (with multiple links as well) concerning "Sports." This shows that the information is unbalanced with each topic. This can become more balnced with the organization of groups to concentraite on certain topic. I do not know which groups to organize the class into, however I stronlgy feel it needs to be done.
This group organization method is not used by Wikipedia itself, because it is impossible to organize the millions who use it into groups. One can write concerning any factual topic on Wikipedia, which gives the encyclopedia it diversity. This method is fine, if the wiki is controlled by such an enormous amount of people. In our case, with only twenty or so people, I believe the class needs some form of organization.
The range of information found on a wikipedia will always be very wide. Though in a small group such as ours, the information will not only be widely ranged, it will also be very short. This can change with organization to the group. As stated earlier, the organization will cause a more professional wiki and the informaiton within each topic will increase because more individuals will be concentrated on the same topic.