Talk:Alan Turing/@comment-144.174.97.214-20120926192437

The first thing I noticed about the Alan Turing group’s Wiki page was that it is well formatted. That is, section titles are nicely underlined and paragraphs of data are separated neatly. On top of that, their use of sources and formatting is very clean, giving the page a professional look. A few of the entries, such as “Career”, “Publications, patents, and other intellectual property”, “Critical Analysis and Interpretation”, and Application to IT or ICT Professionals” lack indentations for each paragraph like the other entries do, but overall the spelling, grammar and usage within these entries is on point with how they should each look.

Another thing I liked about the Turing group’s Wiki is that the information sections look more like individual info blocks and not like a bunch of intro/body/conclusion style entries. What I mean by that is my group’s Wiki was written individually by each person, but after reviewing it I felt that every group member tried to build some sort of concluding statements off of it, and it almost made each section seem like they were leading into the next, whereas I feel that in most Wikis the sections should have a clear start and a clear ending, and not really try too hard to transition into the next one like a story would (since it’s meant to be informative on specific subjects on the persons life).

I did notice that the “Critical Analysis & Interpretation” section repeated info from the “Publications, Patents, and Intellectual Property” section regarding the Enigma Machines that Turing was responsible for cracking, giving the Americans an advantage over the Germans. I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing to repeat information that is pertinent to the Wiki’s subject/person, but elaborating on it multiple times in different sections may seem a bit redundant.

Other than those key points, I think that this group’s Wiki is very well-formed and looks great in terms of information architecture. Their sources are nicely-cited at the bottom and numbered properly for easy referencing throughout the page, and all timestamps are properly inserted after each entry.

Written by Torrey Toomajanian - September 26 at 3:25 PM.