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Hi guys!

Have a look at our final project wiki page on American and Italian university systems! It’s getting nicer and nicer! Don’t you think? Up to now, we have collected all the information we need and we have tried to organize them in a clear way because one of the main objectives of a wiki page is to enable the reader to retrieve the information he/she needs as quickly as possible.

Working on such a project with a group of other students is a very stimulating experience because it implies the active taking part of all the members of the group. And there are also some basic principles to take into account in order to behave in the correct way (in Wikipedia there is the so-called “wikiquette”): respect for other people’s ideas and opinion, good sense, openness to the proposals of the other members of the group and maintenance of a neutral point of view.. In my opinion, up to now we’re getting on quite well and we’re doing a good work because each of us knows what she has to do in the wiki page and we are free to edit and review the final outcome of the others.

I’m so interested in this project for another reason as well. I’m a volunteer in the Italian and English Wikipedia half because of a personal interest for wikis in general and half because of my job in which I contribute to the creation of wikipages in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). So, I know how to use Wikipedia, which is supported by the MediaWiki software, quite well, but I’m curious to learn how to use PBwiki as well. It would be nice to compare the functionalities and to point out the most important differences in tools and possibilities given by the two software.

Soon, I’ll let you know how is going on with our wiki page!