Monday, April 5, 2010

Edit Wikipedia follow up

To follow up with the midterm project that I completed in Wikipedia on Rate Card, Automated Measurement of Lineups, and Average Hours I posted my edits a while back and now found problems in some of the information that I added. When I placed text from other websites into Wikipedia I cited them properly in the format that was required but some of the citations did not save because there was a problem with their set up. I went back in today to try and fix my edits but some of the links Wikipedia did not approve.

The only other problem I ran into was with placing pictures into my pages. Wikipedia informed me that they use to allow users to make corrections and use pictures from other websites but now they no longer do. This made it frustrating because I could not add visuals to any of the new webpages I edited so that people would understand them better. This was a difficult assignment to do because you needed to follow Wikipedias format as well as the shortcut tools to edit in things like bold fonts, links, citations, and other things like that.

I have the before/afters of my three pages saved into a Word document but if you would like to see the finished edits you can find them here:
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_card
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Measurement_of_Lineups
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_Hours

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