Monday, April 21, 2014

Wikipedia Editing: Putting a Face to Bonnie Hammer

 This "Wikistorming" assignment was far more time-consuming and difficult than I thought it would be (particularly editing and adding images and toolboxes) but it was a great experience for learning how to use a technology and learning more about a powerful woman in my personal field of interest: television. I ended up spending a few hours reading some of Bonnie Hammer's interviews and accomplishments and I found it important to make more successful women in the working world visible to the public.

Bonnie Hammer is an executive and chairman at NBCUniversal and is responsible for their cable channels such as E!, Bravo, and USA. She is an extremely successful woman (#61 on Forbes' list) and when I went to check out her page, I was happily surprised that there was already a high amount of content on her work in the industry. However, there was no face to her name and I wanted to add little touches to her page to make her a more accessible figure. I added a photo of Bonnie Hammer, information about her in the personal section (birth, children, residence), validating sources using ebooks from Google books, and her future endeavors as chairman. This includes making the channels not as gender-based or "women and gay men only", which I thought was important to notice as a feminist to bring up being accessible to a wider audience and not just "men only" or "women only". Below are screenshots of some of the changes I made:

Editor name: Astolten


What the page first looked like:

Then some of the edits:


Result:




1 comment:

  1. Unfortunately the great picture that you found was deleted by a Wikipedia bot because it wasn't an image covered by Creative Commons or in the public domain. This is one of the areas that Adrianne Wadewitz has said will continue to be a challenge to Wikipedia, because they don't have the money to pay fees to rights holders or photo libraries themselves.

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