Open Wikis and the Protection of Institutional Welfare
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Higher education is both a consumer and a producer of wiki content. The online collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia, for example, is frequently used as a research device (although usually informally). On public wikis faculty and staff might modify content that pertains to the institution or its sponsored research. Moreover, institutionally supported wikis are becoming increasingly common as a platform for hosting IT help desks, course web pages, or as centralized repositories for knowledge about a particular academic domain.
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