I had Professor Cartwright for Comm 100B as well so I knew a little about wikiediting prior to this course. However, I wanted to edit something on wikipedia that was associated to this class so I decided to edit the feminist technoscience page.
On this page, the original author wrote different things from an author that I have yet to read and doesn't cite. So, it makes it difficult to add things because I can't cite the person's original sources. Also, I thought a lot of the material was personal opinion rather than fact.
After adding the ideas of cyborgs onto this page, I waited to see if it would be taken down or edited at all. The Wikipedia team did take down my See Also: Cyborgs because it goes against one of their policies? I'm not sure how it violates it or what I did wrong in this sense. However, my edit about the binaries in the Central Questions page was not taken down or edited in any way-- yet. I will continually check to see if it will be taken down. I'm a little annoyed about the See Also: Cyborg part- but I'm going to do more research as to why this was not allowed and why it was taken down.
This picture was before I edited anything-- the original.
This picture was after I edited the part about Donna Haraway in the Central Questions category. If you notice that the Cyborg in the See Also category is gone now.
Hi Mai, I am having hard time finding your contribution because you show us the original page and then what it looks like when your contribution was taken down--but we don't see your contribution, is that right? I agree, this page has a lot of opinion (and also strange items). Could use some cleanup for sure! What citations did you add?
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting article to tackle for a number of reasons. As you point out it is very relevant to the class and links to pages for many of the course's assigned authors. As Professor Cartwright points out, you are right to identify many of the unsubstantiated claims on the page as problematic, and it looks like the page was even considered for deletion on April 1. It looks like a particular Wikipedian ("Drowninginlimbo") has become the page's caretaker. On this editor's user page she or he identifies as a potential ally interested in feminism and combatting discrimination on Wikipedia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Drowninginlimbo for more.
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