Thursday, April 24, 2014

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.

2 comments:

  1. It's great that you looked for material on Vietnamese Wikipedia, since bilingual editors can do a lot to improve offerings on the site. Please make sure to let us know specifically what pages you edited. And -- as Professor Cartwright pointed out -- even sentence-level polishing can be helpful.

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  2. Without documentation I can't assess your work, unfortunately.

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