Week 5 Evidence of Learning: Editing a Wikipedia Entry

Above are the before and after shots of a Wikipedia entry: before I edited it, and after I edited it. It was so easy! I just watched the tutorial and just like that, I knew how to edit a Wikipedia entry.

In becoming an 'editor,' I learned something new about myself: that I really don't know very much about anything. It was a real struggle to think of topics that I would know anything about, and when I did think of something, there was already a ton of stuff written about it. This was relatively disturbing.

My boyfriend suggested that I write about my school, the Vancouver Learning Network, which I did. The entry about VLN was very short and had a few spelling and grammatical errors. I guess that plays on what Robert McHenry said about the quality of writing on Wikipedia being questionable. I added a little bit and tried to improve the existing entry by fixing the mistakes. I hope I wasn't too biased in how I portrayed VLN; I think it's a great school and that might have come through in my entry - not very encyclopedic of me!