So, this week I’m asking you to give up just a little of your cognitive surplus (sometimes spent on sleeping, working out, rowing, working, and watching Netflix) in order to edit Wikipedia. Completing an edit and a blog post here…
For my Wikipedia edit I searched through the site to see if a page about my public issue exist and to my surprise, I found a student debt page. This web page highlights the History of student debt, statistics about student…
For my Wikipedia edit, I decided to start by looking at what different Wikipedia pages are available to the public that pertain to litter. I tried to find a page that dealt with litter in Pittsburgh specifically so that I…
When searching Wikipedia, I came across an article specific to my issue: Concussions in American Football. This page was already well established, and contained a lot of interesting information. I did notice, however, that the section on high school football…
I found editing Wikipedia fairly easy after looking through the tutorial. When you first take a took at the tutorial page, it appears quite overwhelming and seems as though it will take some coding skill. In reality, it takes no coding…
When I searched for homeless veterans on Wikipedia, no specific page existed. I created a page on homeless veterans, using websites I trusted from my research and my position paper. I initially created the page on 11/26, and when…
While searching the term “Ebola” I found a few different Wikipedia articles that focused on the subject. The first page I encountered was a broad overview on the virus, which then led me to other articles focusing on different aspects…
A lot of the Wikipedia articles pertaining to my issue are protected articles meaning that I am unable to edit them, so I had to do some searching to find an article I was able to edit. After some searching,…
I edited a Wikipedia page about the Best Friends Animal Society. I researched the issue by going on their website, where they not only had a whole section on their sanctuary but also on the different environments within it. It…
I decided to edit the Wikipedia page about social networking services. I focused on the section about privacy issues involving social media. They briefly addressed the controversy of informed consent online. The original post has a few sentences about this…
After taking time to read the Wikipedia page focused on IBD, I decided that I wanted to edit the Prognosis section about IBD. Given that the focus of my website has been on “Empowering and Inspiring College Students with…
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