In an effort to get us to contribute to the wikipedia project, our assignment for this weekend was to edit an entry on wikipedia. I’ve actually contributed a thing or two to the project before, but none the less this is a neat assignment wich I feel probably makes my fellow classmates feel like they can contribute to something important…rather than just being an end user on another website.
Lets get down to Brass tax, due to circumstances outside of my control, my edits have been removed due to mass vandalism by my classmates, but allas, the assignment was to post and edit and see if it stuck, so heres what I posted…
First, I edited some of the descriptions on the motocross page, if you log in now and read them they are rather, bland, I elaborated on them a little bit, knowing that each section did have its own page…
My other edit was to the socialism page, specifically the section on the United States, well, I put something in there about the Obama administration and…
Not only were all of my edits removed, the edit from Socialism was removed and there was not even a history record of it (that takes a pretty high level of administration to do). Apparently, the Wiki admin removed all wiki edits made by the class. A great exercise in using our online voices professor!