Ms magazine
username:zwfu
username:zwfu
The Wikipedia
assignment has turned out to be really helpful for me in the area of editing
and rethink the community of Wikipedia. The knowledge that I knew about
Wikipedia is that it has been a significantly reliable source. And it has been majority quote and edited
by professional others. However, after the lecture as well as the experiment
with additional training on Wikipedia website, I have found that the source is
not as creditable as I think, but it usually gives a general guideline of what
you are looking for. However instead of considering Wikipedia as the source
where I want to cite for, I would reconsider to look up more detail in
scholarly publishing articles.
It really amazed
me that almost all the editors on Wikipedia are male. Controversy, the topic of
the class is involved with feminism. So I thought it would be interesting to
see the feminism artwork on Wikipedia and what the editors are written from a
possibly male perspective. By going down from this route, I have decided to go
do more research about the feminism work called Ms. The founders of Ms., many
of whom are now household names, helped to shape contemporary feminism.
According to founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Ms.' authors translated
"a movement into a magazine." Basically what this magazine does is to
help with women and broadcast the message by a copy of the magazine. Over the
years, the magazine has been contributed a lot of activities with the community
they are supporting for. However on the Wikipedia website, they do not have the
influence section of the Ms magazine which was really odd for me. To me, As
being such as innovative magazine itself, Ms has contributed so much for the
feminism community. So I have done some research online to quote the influence
of the Ms magazine and add it to the Wikipedia section.
Original Contents without the section "Influence"
The "Influence" section that I added
"Influence" section added on the page
Reference 13-14 added by me
Hi zwfu, great choice of articles--but is the first paragraph you added meant to be ironic or extremely edgy? I am not sure I follow it. Is it a quote from the source?
ReplyDeleteMs. magazine is certainly a great topic to demonstrate how social movements and cultural texts may be related (and one that has also been used as evidence of the biases of white feminism). I agree that you want to clearly demarcate excerpts from primary sources to avoid tangling with Wikipedia's NPOV policy. It looks like another Wikipedia editor perceived it as "vandalism" as a result, which can cause users to be banned from the site and definitely a miscommunication to be avoided.
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