Thursday, December 9, 2010
Practicum #5
Since I last checked in, they have changed the Wikipedia website once again. After navigating through the site once again, I made my way to the deletion pages. I read through the process of page deletion and what constitutes a page up for discussion. I also decided to participate in the deletion page of "Evolutionism". Reading through the arguments, I realized how much thought and effort people were putting into their arguments with backup information. To have such a large argument, the editors must have a background in that area or a extremely large amount of time to research. After reading the comments though, I agreed with a number of other editors that the article should be redirected to another page. This was one of the first times that I participated in a discussion page and I was really intimidated by the other editors on the page. Because I do not have the background as I assume the other editors do, I felt as though I had to work a lot harder to actively participate on the deletion page. I don't know if I would participate in deletion pages in the future unless it was a page that I did have background knowledge in.
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I knew that people have to backup anything they say on Wikipedia, but I was not aware that people go to this much trouble just to have an article up. I have always wondered who spends so much time editing Wikipedia, but it's also interesting to think about why people spend so much effort to get something up on Wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteI could see being intimidated by others who seem to have more knowledge on the subject. As both of our projects fall under collective intelligence, I can relate to that feeling in that I feel less inclined participating in certain aspects of Epicurious.com because I feel my knowledge is less worthy that when other people have to share collectively.
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