User-generated reference sites

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What is a user-generated reference site?
It allows users to generate content collaboratively on a website.
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What's a wiki?
Are websites where users can add or edit content collaboratively using wiki software.
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Who is a target audience for wikis?
Anyone who contributes to the site and to access the information stored on the site.
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Name an advantage of a wiki?
Wikis can be easily changed by users so the information on the websites can be up to date.
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Name an advantage of a wiki?
People from different parts of the world can work together to create content.
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Name an advantage of a wiki?
They often do not require users to pay a fee and contain a huge amount of information.
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Name a disadvantage of a wiki?
Information can be inaccurate, biased or untrue.
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Name a disadvantage of a wiki?
Internet connection is needed.
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Name a disadvantage of a wiki?
The information may become disorganized and include errors,
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What is social bookmarking?
A way of organizing, storing and managing links to online resources, allowing users to search them easily.
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What are the features of social bookmarking?
Users can store URLs online, users give tag words to categories the URLs and users can share their bookmarks with others online.
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Poppy is using a social bookmarking site to share images she is collecting as inspiration for her D&T project. Give two features of a social bookmarking website that would be useful to poppy.
1. URLs of images can be stored online so that she does not lose them. 2. URLs can be accessed from any device connected to the inten
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