By harnessing this data businesses and websites can gather user feedback, providing improvements to their websites or businesses based on customers suggestions. It can also allow them to view trends and determine what is most popular at the time.
One popular form of harnessing collective intelligence is through the use of wiki's.
Wiki's allow any user to add new information on a topic or document resulting in an abundance of knowledge gathered from a collective of users. Wikipedia is one of the most popular forms of communal intelligence, being entirely composed of information added from the public.
The site I have chosen to discuss is Wookieepedia.
Wookieepedia is a website that uses the vast knowledge of the Star Wars fan base to create an accurate knowledge bank on all things within the Star Wars universe. The harnessing of collective intelligence is useful here due the size of the Star Wars franchise, as the amount of information covering all books, games and movies is quite extensive, too much for a small group to amass.
Wookieepedia allows users to add content and time lines and edit incorrect facts from other users.
Wookieepedia is easily compared to that of Wikipedia as it too is a knowledge base built from the harnessing the collective intelligence of any and all users of the site. Just like Wikipedia, the initial data began small than progressively grew to hold over 83385 articles about Star Wars.
When it comes to legal and ethical issues, Wookieepeida does not have the fear of inaccurate information resulting in personal harm, such as people reading it for medical advice. But it will always have the possible issue of irresponsible people posting graphic images and vulgar articles.
Wookieepeida will continue to grow with users constantly adding new data, providing the public with everything there is to know about the Star Wars universe.
Interesting blog post on a blog with an equally interesting name. Wookieepedia seems to suffer from the same issues as wikipedia, but the resulting of the site are worth all the issues that could arise in my opinion. What do you think?
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Wookieepedia HE HE. I like the name with the popularity of wiki's I guess even star wars gets it's own wiki site.
ReplyDeleteI agree with hbeshayer that the possible issues that can come up on wiki's are worth it for the information that they can provide. I have lost track of the times I have refereed to wiki's when stuck and needing answers.
Stephen
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Hey it's Sean here (from Real time 3D). Cool post, I'm not a big Star Wars fan myself, but I could see myself referring to this if I was one. Anyway, good luck with the assignment.
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