The Wiki Foundation presents many opportunities for student research. There, of course, is the well known Wikipedia. But there is also Wikibooks, Wikiuniversity, Wiktionary, and Wikinews to name a few.
The whole Wiki concept and medium also affords great potential for student contribution and collaboration. When you have a site that multiple users can read, add to and edit it opens up all sorts of opportunities for group projects. For instance one could launch a class journal where all students from a particular class could shape, add to and mold it. It would be a great way for a team of students to write a group research paper.
In Wikipedia I visited several sites of interest to me. I ended up doing my practice edit on a site for Pat Parelli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Parelli) who is a big name in natural horsemanship. I happen to know a little about his program because my wife utilizes it quite a bit. Some of the criticism was clearly uninformed and so I added a line or two to try to balance out the misinformation. Unfortunately I forgot to sign my edit with my tildes (~~~~). I also went to the discussion page for the same site and added an entry entitled "A Happy Cult Member". I'm attempting to add a link to the Parelli page.
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