Illustrator Project

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

Illustrator Proposal

1. Describe what kind of visual component you would like to create to accompany your essay

Since I choose to do my midterm project in Wikipedia I not only want to incorporate the terms I used but also the "making wikipedia better" concept. Wikipedia's logo is a basic grey color, with puzzle pieces. My goal is to give Wikipedia's logo a modern facelift. I want to give it some color and add in various images, specifically pertaining to the topics I personally edited.

2. What tools/techniques in Illustrator / Photoshop will you be using?

In Photoshop I will use tools like the feather tool to help combine various images so they fit together perfectly such as pictures which will fill in the puzzle pieces. I want to use Illustrator to add effects to the pictures and vectorize them before i place them into my new logo.

3. How to you envision your completed digital illustration?

I envision my completed digital illustration to be very colorful and vibrant because I want to present a huge contrast between the old, grey one to the new, modern, and eye catching logo. I want to find picture incorporates that modern day technology to upgrade the words that are presently in the puzzle pieces.

Making Wikipedia Better

The first article I found to be under developed was an article for the term Automated Measurement Lineups. There was a brief definition of the meaning of AML but there was no further information. I found it to be a fairly easy concept to grasp but I knew that it would be a lot easier to understand if there were more examples or even pictures so that people could have visuals of this concept. I currently have edited the article, providing more information and sources and I am just waiting to see if any part of the article I contributed to made it on.

I did the same with the following two terms:Average Hours- this was a term used to determine the "average hours" of television watched per household, per person, per week, per year. I found no articles on Wikipedia for this term so I created one and started the page by adding statistics and a brief definition. It has been left open for others to post information from what I originally started. Rate Card- This was the last term I researched. It has to do with the amount an advertiser pays for a commercial, basically a chart of how they will be charged. This was also not developed so I added some information into Wikipedia.

I saved the before articles and will keep checking Wikipedia to see if my contributions have been posted. I will keep my blog updated during the process with the results.

Midterm Project

This post never made it onto my blog for the due date because I hadn't realized that it never successfully posted. For my project I choose to do the Wikipedia project. I researched a bunch of media terms and found three that had not been developed as well as they could be.

Vector -> Bitmap

Before
(vector)

After
(bitmap)

Flip Illustrator