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Wiki-awareness
Team Name: W and the Jams

Group members: Mandy Tam, Anita Spyrka, Spencer Shivak, Jennifer Russel, William Sasges.

Project Statement
Wiki's might be the first thing that come to mind when doing research. However, you might be mislead without knowning it. We will therefore be researching Wiki's, and examining the negative side such as credibility, the unlimited access allowed to individuals to change the context at anytime. It works on the assumption that people are generally good, and works on the honour system.

What is the Honor System?
An honor system, also known as an honor code is a philosophical way of running a variety of endeavors based on trust and honor. An operation adopting the honor code depends on the idea that people can be trusted to act honorably without strictly enforced rules behind its functioning. There are various types of honor systems such as military and academic honor codes. For example, the honor code of the Stanford University states that student, individually and collectively: will not give or receive aid in examinations. Honor systems also work in everyday life as well such as in airports, where it is assumed that all passengers will claim their own belongings and not steal other passengers’ luggage.