Updated Wikipedia Edit

Since I was having such a hard time creating a page for Lynn Randolph, I decided to go a different  route by adding Randolph to an existing page, Donna Haraway. In a couple of weeks, if it has not been removed, I will try to create a page for Lynn Randolph by the link on Haraway's page.
This is what I recently added to Haraway's page:  Haraway participated in a collaborative exchange with the eminent feminist theorist Lynn Randolph from 1990 to 1996. Their engagement with specific ideas relating to feminism, technoscience, political consciousness, and other social issues, formed the images and narrative of Haraway's book. ^[4] 

Wiki - Asian American Studies

Wikipedia username: jujuw (Juliana "Juju" Wong)

Hi Classmates!

I apologize for this post being a bit delayed, but it was because I was waiting to see if any flags or significant changes were going to be implemented on my post (which haven't happened yet). I chose to edit the "Asian American Studies" page because I wanted to choose a topic that I was interesting and relevant to my life, and this happened to pop up in my head. A lot of student activism work is being done by student leaders on the UCSD campus to establish an Asian American Studies minor on our campus. Our undergraduate student population is made up of approximately 50% Asian/American students, but we do not have a resource center or curriculum that educates students about the historical experiences, cultural politics, and social movements that have affected half of the student population. Within the Ethnic Studies department, there are only a few classes that address Asian American issues and there is a push to expand the availability of those courses and to recruit faculty to teach them.

For my entry, I decided to add more specific key concepts that topics that Asian American Studies overall addresses because the previous entry was very brief. I decided to keep my information general first, because I had to remember that not everybody who reads the article would have taken a Sociology or Ethnic Studies course. Here is what I added:

More general information about Asian American Studies.

Specific topics that the UCLA AAS department focuses on.

Prior to my entry, there were no citations at all for this Wikipedia entry. With my additions, I added a scholarly journal article and a link to the UCLA Asian American Studies Department website. Nothing has really happened yet for my entry, in terms of any conflicts or flags by others, so I'm just waiting to see if any activity will happen. In the meantime, I hope to add more information to the page, and see if anything will happen if I bring up more sensitive or critical issues about the topic. I'm glad I finally chose this topic because this really resonates with "the political is the personal" theme in our class, and it's an issue that is currently being debated and taking action upon on the UCSD campus, which affects the stories and experiences of many students, including myself.

People of color in European art history

Hi everyone,

I recently ran into this blog that made me think of the "recovered histories" bit of the Feminism 101 slide. Though this is more focused on people of color in general rather than just women, I thought it was really interesting and I wanted to share. I think the blog is all run by just one person, but they do a great job highlighting just how much the presence of POCs in European history has been erased. I personally always had the impression that there were very few POCs in Europe before the 1800s or so for some reason, but it turns out that many were actually portrayed in many works of art. I think we all know at this point that POCs and women are often erased from history, but it's sort of jarring to think that art history might also have a role in that. The blog runner also engages in a lot of interesting discussion on their tumblr.

Here is the link:
http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/

If you'd like to see just the artwork:
http://medievalpoc.org/

Time's 100 most influential people issue

41 women 59 men
 http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-mg-beyonce-time-100-most-influential-20140424,0,1383902.story?track=rss#axzz2zsKknHYt

Gender Discrimination on Wikipedia

I had taken a 100 series class with Professor Cartwright a few quarters ago, and recall us listen to a guest speaker. She was an avid editor on Wikipedia and discussed to the class how she began editing with a pseudonym that did not reveal her gender; however, once her name was revealed, she began being more harshly critiqued for her work. When we were given this Wikipedia assignment in Comm 146, I remembered that previous discussion and wanted to hopefully write about that issue on a wiki page.

At first, I had trouble deciding which article would fit best with this topic. The articles on pseudonym, systemic bias, discrimination, and glass ceiling were the four articles I was deciding on. I decided to edit the "Discrimination" page because it had a section on sexual discrimination, and had touched a bit on work related gender conflicts.

Before:

During: After completing my paragraph, I realized that I had missed a citation, and had cited my sources in an incorrect format. 

After:

Username: an108

Before hearing the guest speaker, and learning about feminist IT, I was not aware of the issues that women face in online workplace settings. I assumed that Wikipedia had a fairly equal representation of all sexes and genders. However, by doing my own research and editing this article, I was able to see gender stereotypes (i.e. the broom when I did my citation incorrectly) and bias that works amonst Wikipedia. 

Wiki

For the Wiki Project, I tried to look at the different projects that are available that I can be a part of. I thought it was really hard because when I open the page I was like...omg html. Although I have dealt with html before, it is different when looking at a blank page and starting it yourself rather than actually looking at someone else that already started on it and try fixing that. I looked at Vietnamese articles that needed to be edited but there wasn't any.

I find it the more up to date or relevant subjects has more details or information, while things that aren't are not. Which makes total sense because of course, they would want to update the article more. First priority while the others are back burners. I was looking up Vietnamese Pop (V-Pop and I notice some of the entertainment, although  I believe are very well known does not have links to their own wiki page. Realizing that although it might be popular in my culture/perspective, in the more general media, it might not be. So instead, I decided to edit some of the page just grammar wise.

It is amazing how before anybody can edit Wikipedia and at anytime. Now there are lots of rules and restrictions and even when you post it up, it might get taken down right away. I think it is a good idea because than then information is more legitimatized but, it is also bad because some information might not make it to the page because it is viewed as not important, relevant, or truthful right away without more investigations.

"The Voices of Women in the Super Smash Brothers Community"

On Tuesday we discuss the idea of femininity and also the virtual world, especially regarding video games. Although I myself was never really a gamer I have friends that do. Some are very into it but, very rarely do you find female as extreme gamers, competitively. Is it because it is a "men's" sport or is it just because we are under represented? Especially because a lot of time women are hiding their true identity because of the remarks that they often get in the virtual world.

This was an article a friend of my posted on the different statistic that women has to face just in the game  Super Smash Brothers alone. Although things are changing and more female are getting involved in the gaming community, the issues is still prominent. Like a lot of the quotes on the data, the virtual world is a way that, like in the olden days when women use a pseudo name in order to get their works publish, a lot of female gamers hide their identities to be well respected. I wonder, whenever you play games online or anywhere have you heard the phrase, "Oh I was going easy on you because you were a girl," after you won a game? Why can't we win because we are actually good?

Another thing about the virtual world in gaming is sex still sell. A friend of mine who plays League of Legends showed me a space where people can watch other people play the game. A lot of time, girls allowed this to happen so that they can gain points or prizes to help them in the game itself. For me, I find it uncomfortable if people watch me play in person let alone online. Who know what they are doing. These women is using there sexuality, or looks, to gain power in the game. Yet, are these women using their sexuality to gain control and power for themselves and for women or are we going backwards again, exploiting ourselves even more by doing so? A questions often ask when dealing with femininity and ways that women use it.

Nikki S. Lee

In class, I remember Prof Cartwright mentioned the contemporary artist Nikki. S. Lee as we talked about Lynn Hershman Leeson. I took great interest in her work and decided to look more into her work on the Internet. From what I remember, she is a successor of Leeson’s work and is a famous contemporary artist. However, I had trouble finding more information on her. Since she is supposedly a renowned contemporary female artist and has had solo exhibitions in major institutions and museums such as LACMA and the Guggenheim, I was surprised that there is very limited information about her on her Wikipedia page. The only two sections that existed on her page were “education” and “career.” Therefore, I decided to make some changes. First, I changed the title “career” to “work” because I thought that was more professional in a sense. I looked at the Wikipedia pages of Cindy Sherman, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Adrian Piper, and they had a section under “work.” In addition, I added more descriptions to her works.  

Pre-edit

Post-edit

 

Similar to the little amount of information of Nikki S. Lee on Wikipedia, there was limited information of her on the Internet in general. Therefore, adding more detailed information to the page was a challenge. However, I hope the edits I made to the page will help the readers understand this contemporary artist in a more in depth sence.

Peggy Rajski Wikipedia page and Trevor movie update

So, I decided to face my HTML fears and go for it with the Peggy Rajski page. To my surprise, it was not as bad as I thought it would be and I found it rather exciting (it took me back to the days of MySpace page layouts). Anyways, I used sandbox to put together the information that I had gathered on Rajski, making sure to use as many secondary sources I could find and reference, including a New York Times article containing a wedding announcement for Peggy in 1983 (information that can be used for a potential "Personal Life" section). I was also able to internally link to plenty of different Wiki sites (NYU, Tisch School of Arts, Academy Awards, Trevor [movie], and the Trevor Project). Once I put together everything that I had had about Peggy on Sandbox, I submitted the article for review.

During my research of Peggy, I stumbled upon an article written about her discussing the inspiration for her most successful movie, Trevor, came from a NPR broadcast about teen suicide. I thought this information was highly relevant to the Trevor Wikipedia page, so I decided to add that information on the Trevor movie wiki, as well as a link/reference to the article that I found the information on.

Sierra Demulder Wikipedia Article

For my Wikistorming project, I decided to create a wikipedia page for my favorite spoken word poet. As you can see, it is currently a little threadbare because I did have trouble finding facts about her that I could attribute to a "credible" source. Also, I noticed that with Wikipedia, you have to take baby steps. With this page, I wasn't allowed to have a picture uploaded to the wikipedia database because there wasn't a page for her yet. I hope I have enough here that those in charge will be willing to keep it up. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone was willing to help me with research for it, even if you haven't heard of her yet. She is currently on of the most highly decorated performance poet and I think that deserves a little pat on the back. I think she is particularly relevant for this class because many of her poems are feministic and she is a self-proclaimed feminist that has received most of her acclaim over the internet and Youtube. Even if spoken word isn't your think, I suggest you check out one of her most recent poems, Today Means Amen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-gqLaipW4). Its just one of those videos that will seriously brighten your day if you're not feeling your best.

Best,
Cameron

Bridesmaids

After much browsing, I decided to edit the page of the film, "Bridesmaids" for my Wikipedia assignment. I have a lot of interest in the film and television industry, and thought editing a page on a groundbreaking show/film with women would be perfect for this assignment. Kristen Wiig is one of the most successful comedic actresses today, and the success of the film, "Bridesmaids" reflected the first (of hopefully many more to come) all-female cast to generate a huge box-office hit. It brought to attention that an all-female comedy can produce revenue for the studio, while pleasing audiences and critics alike. It was truly a big deal for women in comedy.

The "Bridesmaids" page was already appropriately filled in most of its aspects, but I thought it lacked emphasis on the significance of its success. They already had a "Critical Reception" section so I decided to edit and contribute to this portion of the page. Along with editing and slightly reformatting the existing section, I added a few more reviews on the film that highlighted the magnitude of its success. I wanted to specifically make it known that the film was one of the first of its kind, and how important it was to not only women in comedy, but the film industry as a whole. With the right qualities, female-driven comedies are more than capable of succeeding, just like their male counterparts. Women can be funny, and despite their minority presence in the industry, can write just as well.

Before:

Edits:

After:

Editor name: esyim

In doing these edits, I found that despite doing this for a class assignment, it was rewarding to have ownership over something that could be seen by a countless number of people. I don’t suspect too many edits on my own edits, unless there were complications with citations. I think I emphasized information that was well known and thought of, which aligned with the flow of what was already there. Assuming that my edits won't be taken down, I had a sense of pride knowing that people are becoming more aware of the significance of this film because of my edits. I hope my contributions to this page promoted a positive image of women in the film industry, their capabilities, and the triumphs they will continue to achieve.

Wiki Assignment Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Wiki Assignment COMM 146

This wiki assignment proved to be a little more challenging than the one I did in COMM 100B. This assignment had an extra component to it, relating it back to feminism and technology. I am particularly interested in law so I wanted to do this assignment on a law case. At first, I wanted to edit the wiki article on Roe v. Wade. Unfortunately, the article was locked and you had to request access to edit it. I am assuming that because of the large amounts of controversy behind it, Wikipedia has taken extra precautions in who can edit the article. So I decided to edit Planned Parenthood v. Casey, another controversial case, tied in with Roe v. Wade. This is kind of the overlooked abortion case and has greater precedent than Roe v. Wade.

The law is a very interesting thing. A lot of people think that it is neutral in all aspects of life. However, a closer analysis of the law shows that it is patriarchal. The Supreme Court has had four female justices in its existence, which means that most of the opinion writing is based on male perspective. Especially with abortion, there is a lot of male perspective. After reading the Wikipedia article on Planned Parenthood v. Casey, I realized that women are not really mentioned in the article. The law treats women as a commodity, something that can be bartered. I sought to change that discourse with my two edits. The first in adding the first paragraph above and then second adding the second sentence in the paragraph talking about the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision. I wanted to add these two edits because I feel that it brought out a different perspective on this case, that it is not just about whether an abortion is constitutional, but about women, treating them with respect and not an object. The liberty of women is rarely mentioned in this Wikipedia article, if not at all, and I wanted to bring that out.  

Wikistorming - Joanna Coles

Hi everyone, so I created a page for Joanna Coles, since I recognized her name when I went down Wikipedia's list of recommended people who should have their own page but do not. She is a magazine editor, who's the current editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. I want to be a magazine editor someday, and even though I don't read Cosmopolitan myself, I know her as a public figure. She's pretty well known since she was a celebrity judge on Project Runway: All Stars and had cameos on a reality TV show for Marie Claire when she worked there, so I was surprised that she didn't already have her own Wiki page, especially when other prominent women magazine editors do. When I started doing research on her, I was surprised by the amount she's spoken out about feminism. It made me feel that this was even more fitting for our class, as she brings up interesting/perhaps controversial points. This is what her page looked like before I added anything:

Echoing what everyone else said, this assignment was a lot harder than I expected. It was definitely a bit difficult to get familiar with how to edit on Wikipedia (since this was my first time), and then having to find legitimate research and citing properly was pretty tedious. But it definitely feels good to now have the finished product! Here's what I contributed:

My username: kianala
The URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kianala/Joanna_Coles (my submission is waiting to be reviewed for approval)

Wikipedia: Feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This assignment is a lot more time- consuming that I originally thought. I remember I did a similar Wikipedia assignment when I had professor Cartwright for COMM 100B last year. At that time, I edited the page for 'Yellow rubber duck'. However, all my edits were modified on the next day which made my really frustrated. And soon I realized that Wikipedia is a very competitive platform; editors who have superb writing skills are more likely to avoid being modified.

I picked Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Wikipedia page to edit for the assignment. Adichie is a Nigerian feminist and writer. After spending hours reading her interviews and speech transcripts, I found that she mentioned feminism, gender issues, and sexuality in almost every interview she had. However, when I looked over her Wikipedia page, nothing related to gender construction is mentioned. Besides, she is described as a writer rather than a feminist. Therefore, I decided to add some information about her being a feminist in her Wiki page. I added a sub- section 'We should all be Feminists' under the section 'Lecture'. 'We should all be Feminists' is the title of a speech that Adichie gave on TED in 2012. She talked about her views on feminism and gender construction in the speech. She told stories and facts about gender issues as proves of the gender stereotypes around the world.

Her speech was later sampled in Beyonce's song 'Flawless'. Adichie expressed in interviews that she was happy with the sampling because more young people pay attention to feminism nowadays.

How the page looks before editing

In progress

I added a brief summary of the speech

I added some quotes

After editing

After editing

Here is the link of the Wiki page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie

user name: bobochiu

Attacking A Women's Fraternity

This assignment turned out a lot harder than I had anticipated, but after much research, and contemplations on what topic to edit, I finally found one of great interest to me! When searching the student organization I am greatly involved with, Kappa Kappa Gamma, which was actually founded as a women's fraternity, I found some history I didn't even know about myself.
A man named Bruce Ivins had a strange obsession with Kappa to the point he had mailed them Anthrax. Interestingly enough, I also found that Bruce Ivins would go on Wikipedia and edit Kappa Kappa Gamma's page, and change the article to say mean and derogatory things about the sorority. I found this article very strange, but informative, because it shows how women's organizations are attacked, and the power the male has to impact the reputation. This man was obsessed enough to mail a sorority anthrax, and sit there on his own free time and edit the pages to say things that were not true, which were constantly taken down.
I found editing this topic relevant, because not only does it directly attack the subject of Feminism, and how women are treated differently, and basically harassed in this situation, but also the impact of technology and how that directly contributes to Feminism. Technology is so powerful that it allows people the freedom to not only express their feelings, but also speak their mind to a mass audience instantaneously.

Enjoy!
username: Tbee2
Picture of Bruce Ivins section under the Kappa Kappa Gamma Wikipedia Page (pre-edit)

 Edit completed:

 Finalized page:

Creating an article (and the uncertainty that comes with it)

I wasn't sure what to do for this assignment exactly--I felt like a lot of my interests were things that already had extensive pages, and even if they weren't extensive, I wasn't sure that I knew enough to add information. I was surprised to realize just how much of what I know comes from Wikipedia. And it was unsettling, especially in relation to what we discussed in class about how this information is shaped by social forces but is then presented as objective and neutral.

I eventually thought back to a class I took from Kelly Gates last quarter on surveillance and media. I remembered that a lot of the concepts in that class kept coming back to one particular (and compelling, in my opinion) article by a woman named Julie Cohen. I googled her, and was surprised to find that she did not have a Wikipedia page at all--not even a stub. I had been under the impression that she was a somewhat influential scholar in her field. And she seems to be--she has written quite a lot of articles, and some of her work has been cited 400-500 times, according to Google Scholar.

So I thought I'd try to create a page for her. It is a daunting task--especially since I have personally not studied much about law or privacy, and especially since there is no simple, aggregated source of information on her. I hadn't given much thought to just how difficult it is to create an article just in terms of how to gather and articulate information. I had edited a Wikipedia-suggested article (Esfandiyar) for grammar and wording to practice, but this is just something else. I have to admit that I felt more intimidated by the thought of possible responses (despite having a gender-neutral username) and learning the statistics about Wikipedia editors being 90% male. Despite feeling like I am nowhere near the most qualified person to create a page for Cohen, I still felt like it was important to at least try to add at least one more notable woman to Wikipedia.

I started the page here, and maybe it'll be marked as a stub but I think it's a start. I might go back and add more information as I find it. Here are some screencaps, just in case the page does get deleted:

Wikipedia Editing: Challenge Accepted

Having edited on Wikipedia before I was excited to tackle this assignment. I began my search for editing tasks by searching feminism and technology on Wikipedia. I stumbled upon the !Women Art Revolution page and noticed that one of the artists, Ingrid Sischy, who was featured in the documentary did not have her own Wikipedia page. Thus my challenge was set out in front of me. I began putting together a page for her, which was no easy task. This is my first really huge Wiki contribution, I was no longer a gnome! I was a real contributor!
The experience allowed me to toggle around with the sand box feature which gave me some confidence because I knew it would not turn out as expert as say Madonna's. But I still wanted to practice the skills and editing. I included her most renown title as Editor and Chief of Interview Magazine, which was a position given to her by Andy Warhol. She took the magazine and made it a success in her 18 years of tenure before deciding to leave the magazine and pursuing the opportunity to be an International Editor for Vanity Fair Magazine's Italian, Spanish and German versions.

I started the process in the Sand Box and from here I also included a quote from an article I referenced on her biography. To close the page I decided to link the !Women Art Revolution Wiki page to include a part about her work as a pioneer for the feminist art movement of the 1970's. After feeling more confident with my experience using the Sand Box I decided to create a new page and monitor the correspondence with it to see if any other editors would flag it or delete it.
My user name is ambiguous as to what gender I am so I'm hoping no gender biases will take place. I tried to cite my sources and remain as neutral as possible when publishing the content I felt was missing in her page.

Spoken Wikipedia

When beginning this project, I was really excited to continue contributing to the Wikiworld. Like many of you have expresses in your blog posts, I was also a student in Professor Cartwright's Comm 100B lecture last year and have previously contributed to Wikipedia. I continued my efforts beyond the original class assignment and found excitement in the countless Wikiprojects that I could make a difference in. I have since produced video for the Classroom Project "Wiki Makes Video" (PB&J) and recorded audio for the Spoken Wikipedia Project (Zorbing).

I found great reward and accomplishment when contributing to Wikipedia in these unique ways and for this project I decided to continue collaboration with the Spoken Wikipedia Project after thinking about the connections this resource has with our class.

We have been talking a lot about cyborgs, the current state of combining human and technology, and equality across all domains which has shown me that Wikipedia is a great technology resource for the typical able bodied human. What many people fail to see is that Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia for the masses but in reality is not inclusive as it could be. 

I had never really thought about Wikipedia being used by people who are blind or can not read until I stumbled across the WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia  which "aims to produce recordings of Wikipedia articles being read aloud. This allows Wikipedia's articles to be accessed and listened to by people who are visually impaired or can understand language but cannot read it.

Access to information for ALL is a key goal in FTN's "wikistorming" and I decided to record audio for FemTechNet's Wikipedia article to revise and enhance the article's access as well as contribute to Spoken Wikipedia.

Following strict guidelines provided by Spoken Wikipedia, I began by notifying the community of the project I was about to start (to ensure that no duplicates would be made).

I then recorded the article using Garageband and edited the audio to abide by the rules. It took me about 45 minutes to record the article but the final recording is only about 5 min.

After recording the article I was ready to upload it to the Wikimedia commons. Below you can see the coding of the article into a Wikimedia Commons page. I had to give the recording a creative commons license and source it as my own work.

Continuing, I linked the recording to the FemTechNet article page under "External Links" so that it can be viewed and listened to directly from the article page. 

Below is what the finished article looks like with the linked audio recording:

The Wikiproject next required me to inform the community of the addition and add a banner to the talk page. 

Finally, after recording, uploading and notifying, it was time to add the article to official list of all completed spoken articles on Wikipedia.

While the task of creating an audio recording for this Wikiproject is very time consuming, I really enjoyed this contribution and an proud of the final result. FemTechNet is now accessible to a larger audience.

A final note on my project:

Before recording the FemTechNet article, I listened to many of Wikipedia's audio recording to try to get a better sense of the structure and timing. After the first 3 articles though, i began listening with a different objective. After 3 articles it became apparent to me that I was only hearing male voices produce the audio. I  continued to click on random articles and listen, waiting to hear a female voice. After having listened to about 30 articles I have yet to find one produced by a female. Even within the Spoken Wikipedia Project, the gender gap is significantly affecting this resource. I am proud to have contributed to this project as a female in an effort to diminish this gap.

Article Edited: FemTechNet

User Name: k9taylor

Wiki Editing/Entrance-Alexander McQueen+ Donna Haraway=HaraQueen

   I found this wiki editing is sort of an extension of my first blog commenting from the previous one. Last comment I actually found something related to fashion- Alexander McQueen as using Cyborg in his design and fashion runway. Thus, this week's Wiki editing I am more focusing on how does McQueen use design as a translation of cyborg into his design and as a man in the fashion industry which he was famous known in designing female's clothing trend. 

   As I search more about McQueen's book and his works.  His talent was amazed me. He was committed suicide at his 40. I found two pieces of article and interviews at the MET ( Musuem of Metropolitan  Fine Art) held an exhibition about him - Savage Beauty. Those pieces of dress are like antique and art. It is very sad for such a loss in the fashion design to me. I found in the runway show back in the 1998 when he was first introduce and borrow the idea of Cyborg into the runway show, he was also putting his own identity in the Cyborg.  He admitted he was Gay at the age of 6. Also I found a very important research done by a PhD student in University of West Georgia, Jacob Glazier. He combined or related Alexander McQueen and Donna Haraway's idea of "feminism" connected together as come up with the term " HaraQueen" by combining both of their last names.  

( this is my post under "Alexander McQueen) 

( This is how PhD student  did the research about McQueen and Haraway as to combine both of their ideas of "Third-Wave" feminism together that Mcqueen fully presented "Cyborg" in his fashion runway since 1998. )

( " I am Paralysed" by McQueen, which I found similaity to Haraway's " I'd rather be Cyborg than a goddess" as it is referring to be a living organism) 

Wikipedia: Create a page for Lynn Randolph

Having edited a Wikipedia page before, I was eager to try to create a page for Lynn Randolph after learning that she does not have one. I felt that the work she has done is worthy enough of having her own page where other people are able to search for her and learn more about what she has done in her field of work. In the video tutorial about editing Wikipedia,  Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz  goes step by step of how to edit a page. It was extremely helpful and I used her instructions as I created a wiki page for Lynn Randolph. I am still having trouble posting it so it comes up when you search for her. I got all my information that I have references to from Lynn Randolph's page when i searched for her.
After having trouble logging into an account I had previously made, I decided that I would just use my first and last name so that I am known as a female editor. I am curious to see if my page will be removed or how it might get edited. The last user name I made did not indicate what my sex I might be.

Anything boys can do, girls can do better!

After reviewing this assignment, I was quite excited to edit another Wikipedia page. Because I had Professor Cartwright in COMM 100B, I was familiar with the Wikipedia assignment. Since this is a FemTech class, I decided I wanted to edit Ye Shiwen's Wikipedia page. Ye Shiwen was a 16 year old girl from China, who made headlines in the 2012 Olympics. She swam the final 50 meters of a freestyle leg in 28.93 seconds. This made news because she beat Ryan Lochte, an American male swimmer who quickly became a crowd favorite for winning the men's event. Shiwen was under hot waters for accusations of doping. However, the accusations were all false because Shiwen passed all her drug tests.

After reviewing the case, the accusation of doping was quite absurd. Although technology of doping is fascinating in the way that it enhances performance in athletes, Ye Shiwen should not have been accused. Officials clearly proved that her drug tests were all negative. In my posting on Wikipedia, I quoted Professor Jonathan Dugas of Loyola University in Chicago. He believed that Shiwen used performance drugs to enhance her energy and speed. I would disagree with Professor Dugas because if this was a 16 year old, MALE swimmer, the news and media would be praising the child, instead of accusing of doping. However, because Shiwen is female, her skills were overlooked by her gender. It's quite unfair for there to be a gender norm and stereotype that men are stronger or faster. In many cases and this one particularly, Shiwen proves that gender has nothing to do with how strong or fast you are. Women are just as capable of accomplishing and beating men and vice versa. 

After viewing Ye Shiwen's Wikipedia page, I realized she didn't have an image. I searched other male swimmers and most of them had images. I decided to add on for her. With that said, I had trouble saving my edits and the image. I was able to preview them, but the site did not allow me to save my page. I screenshot my edits to show my progress.

Thanks!

Username: yopattyyy