Week 6 Excercise

In this activity we’re going to attempt to contribute to Wikipedia!

* Go to Wikipedia and locate a topic that you know something about.

* Find something that you believe is missing from the article or that you think should be changed.

* IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT VANDALISE THE PAGE. Merely make a small change or addition to the content that you feel is warranted. * Make the change and/or addition. (Don’t forget to log the change you have made)

* Return to the page later in the week to see how the community has responded to your input.

What changes were evident upon your return?

It seems like everyone else that the only page that I really knew something about was my hometown of Belair. After sitting here for awhile trying to figure out what to add, I came up with the famous restaurant here and added to the end of someone else’s sentence. It has been 14 days and no one has edited it yet, or maybe no one has even visited this page. The line I added was…

as well as hosting the award winning Windy Point Restaurant and Café.

Interestingly the first time I loaded the edit page, I thought I was looking at some XML with the definitions up the top of the page. The interface was interesting and I am glad they use mouseovers for tooltips on the buttons.

Looking through the discussion area was interesting to see a couple ‘portals’ and how they have set a scale to the article.