Friday, April 9, 2010

Wikipedia

How easy or difficult was it to find articles that needed editing? Were the errors that you found factual or grammar / spelling?

At first, it was difficult to find a page to edit, because interesting pages I looked at were very complete and seemed to have editors that were keeping right on top of them. But as soon as I went obscure - the small college I attended - I found that there was plenty that could be added. I added a short section and linked to the official website of the school as a citation.
I found myself worrying that my phrasing and formatting weren't going to conform to Wikipedia norms, and that an editing veteran would come along and be appalled that some amateur messed things up, but I got over that.

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