The Wikipedia Assignment was something different for me that I’ve never done before. In my experience many professors told me that using Wikipedia wasn’t allowed because anyone and everyone can go into whichever article and alter it however they please. Doing this assignment taught me new things about how editing Wikipedia really works if one does it the correct way. During the training I learned the five core rules of Wikipedia, what the sandbox is, talk pages, watch lists, and wikiprojects. This exercise also gave me the opportunity to actually edit articles. What I liked about the training and exercise was that it included actual tutorial videos of what to do. Also while actually working on the actual wikipedia page it had little bubbles that had directions to guide you to the next step or what to do. I learned that editing on Wikipedia is actually not that quick and easy like everyone thinks. Each fact that someone writes on there has to be referenced from a reliable source that cannot be biased. In order to add images to Wikipedia you can never use images found through image search, Instagram, Tumblr, Reddit, Imgur, or even the “Free image” or “free stock photo” websites. You have to find images with proof that the creator gives permission for people can use their photos. In addition, I already knew that Wikipedia articles were edited by many people but I didn’t know that they had a talk page where editors discuss among one another, their edits why they’re making changes.There’s really a lot of rules to using Wikipedia and I don’t see myself ever editing an article on there again unless I take another course that requires me to do so.
Jessica Colasacco Wikipedia Reflection
For my Wikipedia assignment, I decided to add an image to the page for Aruba. This pass summer, I visited with my family and all the attractions are beautiful. One of the days we were there, we went on a ATV ride across the country and we were able to see all the amazing locations Aruba has to offer. The last stop on the tour was a natural pool that was created in the ocean. It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Waves would be crashing over these huge rocks, but there in the middle was a small section of water that resembled a pool. It was 3 inches deep on the outside and the middle was 20 feet deep. Fish swam all around your feet. It was an amazing site to see. Since the page for Aruba did not have a picture of the natural pool, I decided to upload one that I had taken while on my trip there. I thought that other people should be able to know about this amazing location.
Michael Farias Wikipedia Assignment Reflection
For my project, I decided to edit the wikipedia page of the Colombian soccer player Juan Fernando Quintero. I am a huge soccer fan and this player is very special to me. The world cup was this summer and Quintero had a very good tournament with Colombia and I edited the world cup section of his wikipedia by adding more information. The information that was originally there was very broad so I added more to make it more complete. I very much enjoyed doing this but I realized that you have to write from a neutral point of view and state the facts. I had to research each game and find out at what minute in the game did he score or assist to a goal and at what minute was he substituted out of the game. It was a decent amount of work but it was a lot of fun and I would like to write more for wikipedia.
Carolyn Pena Wikipedia Reflection
I decided to upload a picture that I took of the Pulitzer fountain which is located in Manhattan. I had a couple of different pictures of this fountain because I used to work right across from it. On my breaks, I would go sit here and relax for 30 minutes. Since I would go here almost every day, I noticed that during the time I was there at least 5-10 people would take a picture of the fountain or with it. It’s a beautiful fountain but I always wondered if the people who would take a picture of it knew any history of it or the name of it. One of the main reasons I knew the name to this fountain was since I have my location enabled, my iPhone automatically put the name of the location on top of the picture in my camera roll. I was amazed that my iPhone was able to recognize the image and pinpoint the name of the fountain. When you search up Pulitzer fountain on Wikipedia, there is only one picture there of the actual fountain which was taken in 2014. The other pictures were the layout of where the fountain is located and a few on the sculpture that is on top of the fountain. As I mentioned before, I would always go here for lunch breaks which made me feel credible enough to post one of my pictures of the Pulitzer fountain. I believed that my picture was good enough to illustrate what the Pulitzer fountain looked like from my point of view. On Wikipedia, the article itself had the most information on the restoration of the Pulitzer fountain but I just chose the gallery aspect of this article because that’s where I believed my picture belonged best. The picture I uploaded of the Pulitzer fountain was taken this year 2018 and I believe Wikipedia needed an update on how the Pulitzer Fountain looked now.
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Milagros’ Illustrate Wikipedia 10/1
I decided to add a picture to my high school’s wikipedia page. I had a photo of my high school in my camera roll and I was hoping that there wasn’t a photo so that I could easily just add a picture of my own to it. Luckily, nobody had added a photo so I decided to upload the photo of the front of the school. I think we choose photos to accompany descriptions based on what it is and how can it relate to the description. For instance, a description of a Starbucks coffee can be accompanied by a picture of a Starbucks’ coffee because that it was it is describing. I think pictures add the real part to something because its one thing to just read about something, but its another thing to see it for yourself. I decided to add a photo of the front of the school because I think that seeing the school gives the page more character and shows the readers know what the school looks like. I chose to represent the beginning part of the page, basically the introduction. I chose this part of the article because I noticed that it did not have a photo and that is the first thing that people see when they look up this article. I think that if there is a photo in the beginning, then people will be more interested in reading about this certain thing and have an image in their mind related to this certain thing.
