Editing Wikipedia – College Student Alcoholism
On a previous assignment when we had to find a page on our public issue from Wikipedia, I failed to find any pages with any kind of substantial amount of text or information that was useful on my subject. So…
Self-Image Wikipedia Editing
When I visited the self-image Wikipedia page for the first time, I thought it looked pretty good. It has many different sections and a lot of information pertaining to self-image. It seems to have a lot of random information though,…
Wikipedia Edit: Rastafarian Section of Vegetarianism
When I visited the vegetarianism wikipedia page, the first thing that I realized is that it was already a very substantial page. I found myself reading the religion section of this page, as it was something I had not normally…
Philadelphia Schools and Wikipedia
I edited the School District of Philadelphia Wikipedia page. I changed the number of charter schools in the district from 50 to 86 and also changed the number of public schools because recently 23 public schools have closed. I also…
Charter School Wikipedia Edit
I chose to edit the Charter School Wikipedia page. For my edit, I have changed the number of states with charter schools from 41 to 43 states. Through my research, I have found out that there are only…
Wikipedia: Autism Spectrum
The first Wikipedia page I looked at was the article titled Autism. I found it interesting because this article is actually “semi-protected”, meaning that only registered users who have been on the website for a certain amount of time and…
Editing a Child Obesity Wikipedia Page
I noticed throughout my exploration of various child obesity related Wikipedia sites that none of them had very recent statistics about the percentage of obese children in the US. The most common recent statistics seemed to have been from 2008…
NEWater Wikipedia Edits
The Wikipedia editing process was a really cool way for me to share my knowledge with a target audience. Only people searching for NEWater will see the content on the page which narrows the audience and allows there to be…
Editing the Dyslexia Wikipedia Page
One of the things I found interesting when researching my issue was the evidence against a common misconception about dyslexia. It is often assumed that more boys than girls have dyslexia. I made a post about this assumption on my…
Cognitive Surplus and Education in Mexico
I found the Cognitive Surplus piece from Clay Shirky quite interesting because I am a huge TV fan and will probably never give it up. I’ve never had a problem with this fact, however, because my TV watching doesn’t tend to affect…
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