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    whatever might be on their mind. Also, different wikis are made for different types of information, for example a wiki can be made school related articles or business related topics such as stocks or law firms. As wikis are constantly being used accessed by multiple networks every second, it naturally needs servers to store and control the amount of website traffic. One of the main features about wikis that makes it different from other sources of information is that it can be edited by almost anyone, and editing large important articles is more complicated than one might think. Code editing is involved for most edits that require sufficient amounts of information and details. For example, the steps one has to take to edit an article include: MediaWiki syntax "Take some more [[tea]]," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. Equivalent HTML <p>"Take some more <a href="/wiki/Tea" title="Tea">tea</a>," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.</p> Rendered output "Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. With wikis, the potential uses are limitless, there is only purpose, and that is to allow editors and authors, or even normal members of the public to share and publish their knowledge of any topic with the rest of the world, while some may think that wikipedias are all very technical and logical, many articles can be found that revolve around cultural aspects of a certain african tribe or a native american…

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    Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range of Wikipedia areas. Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia. Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English. Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions on a wide range of subjects. Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia…

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    board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range of Wikipedia areas. Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia. Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English. Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions on a wide range of subjects. Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia itself,…

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    of a Wiki page on a pre-assigned area of module content and as such could be considered a project-based learning exercise (Krajcik & Blumenfeld, 2006), relying on experiential learning, or "learning by doing" as described by Kolb building on work by Dewey, Piaget and Lewin (Dixon, 1997). Krajcik and Blumenfeld observed that students in project based learning environments achieved better grades than those from traditional learning environments (Krajcik & Blumenfeld, 2006). Markham suggested…

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    Buongiorno Campaign Paper

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    Help About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact page Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Wikidata item Cite this page Print/export Create a book Download as PDF Printable version Languages Deutsch Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 21 February 2017, at 08:40. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of…

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    Gender Policing sometimes defines our society and this needs to change. “Gender policing is a normative approach to gender that involves coercion and socialization of individuals into conforming to the gender binary” …(MediaWiki, 2014.) Gender Policing also goes hand in hand with gender norms. Normative approaches to gender such as clothing categories for either females or males, what sports each the average male or female should play, if a baby is female or male at birth. The fact that at birth…

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    What will you think about when I am mentioning about a car? Perhaps a picture of a car will be immediately appearing in your mind. Have you ever thought about the causation of this kind of phenomenon? Does it have something to do with our brain structure? In this paper, I will illustrate the relations between the “representational theory of mind” and the problem of intentionality and examine how the former term help to address the latter. I will begin by defining the meaning of intentionality.…

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    Help About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact page Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Wikidata item Cite this page Print/export Create a book Download as PDF Printable version Languages Add links This page was last edited on 8 May 2018, at 03:40. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and…

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    Bullying: A Case Study

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    people to spend time with – look for people who make you feel good about yourself and make you have fun while you are with them. This will refresh your self-confidence and might cause the bully to back off a bit. 11. Explore more about bullying- read articles, watch television programs etc about bullying and you can then know more about what is happening to you. 12. Know that many other children go through the same thing that you are going through – this will probably make you feel a bit more at…

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    Craig W. Luther gives detailed information on the significance of Operation Barbarossa. It does not focus only on the overall effects of the war that affected Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, but also the whole Eastern Europe. It is a great reference choice due to the author’s credibility as an author and a retired U.S. Air Force historian. The author has published his own highly-acclaimed book, “Barbarossa Unleashed”, that discusses the topic even further. I intend to use this reference…

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