I love wikis, I think they are an excellent evolution of our collection of shared information. While one must take wiki content with a grain of salt due to authoring, wikis offer limitless potential for sharing knowledge. In 2006, I attended the NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) in San Diego, CA and went to a presentation on wikis. The guest speaker explained how the traditional 'guardians' or 'gatekeepers' of knowledge no longer have complete control over the 'history' or 'facts' that are disseminated to the public. I. e., Encyclopedia Britannica in print form is no longer one of the only options for researching information. I especially love that the common shared version of 'historical fact' is no longer from the perspective of the 'winners'. Wikis, discussion boards and online access to global newspapers has helped us, as humans, to learn to form our own opinions of fact based on our own construction of knowledge (Can you say constructivism?) Here's a link to to Al Jazeera news, in English.
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