Tired and Aggrevated

This has not been a kind week for me. I am broke, I've gotten three hours of sleep each night for most of the week, and I'm still trying, without much success, to get every to do with school taken care of on time. Oh! And I feel like I'm going to die of a stroke any day now. Enough said.
Anyhow, the discussion today is a thing called "Wikis," which is essentially a web site that any user(s) can create and edit to serve a certain purpose. Most of us are familiar with Wikipedia and maybe Scholarpedia. Back in high school many people that I knew used Wikipedia very frequently to do projects, something that is almost always unacceptable in college. But in those days I had never seen anyone use Scholarpedia. The two wikis come from a program called MediaWiki, both can be edited/reviewed by outside users and they look almost identical. However, unlike Wikipedia, Scholarpedia has experts that are selected by its respective editors. Also the articles written by such authors have people responsible for the article called curators, from whom an outside user would need permission to edit the article.
Wikis are interesting because it allow viewers to find opinions and/or facts about a subject in a convenient way, if not always a reliable way. As I mentioned before it is quite often unacceptable to use Wikipedia for college projects, but that is not to say that all wikis are unreliable information sources. Scholarpedia seems to be a more reliable source based simply on the editing criteria and as I also said before, wikis can be very convenient. This is Soneji, signing out.