I will be discussing the advent of urbandictionary.com and how it is like the wiki. I will also be discussing how this urban form of the wiki is used and if it's use has as much of an impact on the computer world as wikipedia has. I will also explore how this urban wiki relates to other websites and trends that have to do with the younger generation. I will be using the article "Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?" by Brock Read. Hopefully, I will find another reading to use, but as of right now, I am not sure which one I will use.
Proposal: Urbandictionary as UrbanWiki
By totoros mushroom - Posted on February 20th, 2007
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Sounds interesting. Urban Dictionary administrators approve each post before it's made, don't they? This obviously contrasts wiki's community-driven censor after the fact. You might want to talk a bit about the significance of this distiction.
You might also think some about the site's use of "voting" to determine the value of various definitions. What's the relationship between the site's content, its community-built form, its determination of value, and its approval structure? Where do the ideals that each of those aspects represent work together, and where do they seem to be at odds with one another?