Wikipedia and Twiki are both online encyclopedias that offer users with thorough amounts of information on almost any topic imaginable. Wikipedia is an open information source, which makes it different from Twiki. Wikipedia allows users from all over the globe to log in, access, and edit any of the information found on the website. Twiki is a little more formal and allows it’s more than 200 employees to step in and help with the editing process. Twiki focuses on the “information flow within an organization” and allows groups to work together through the site itself. Wikipedia does not offer assistance like that, rather focuses on the simple task of supplying people with information. For me, the formality of Twiki makes it seem much more useful than Wikipedia. I have used Wikipedia several times to look up information about topics, but it is by no means a “reliable” source. Users can edit the information to say anything they want and there is no “head user” of any sort to help weed out the misleading information. While the information on Wikipedia can be useful in certain situations, it is not helpful for research projects or anything or that sort, unless you have another source for information comparison. Twiki would be extremely handy, especially when it comes to working in groups. It is very difficult to coordinate projects with group members outside of a classroom setting and Twiki is trying to make it much less stressful. They are creating a formal work environment that allows people to collaborate on projects and has made it very easy to edit the work of you group members. My understanding of Twiki is also that only members of a specific group are able to access a certain page, which makes the site more reliable because no random people can edit your information. Overall, I think that both of these sites can be helpful if used correctly, but Twiki does seem much more stable and reliable than Wikipedia.
