Showing posts with label editing wikis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label editing wikis. Show all posts

Friday, February 12, 2010

Editing Wikipedia


I had never given much thought to adding or editing content on Wikipedia. The malleable encyclopedia had been used mostly for starting points when I was research something ingrained in pop-culture. The resources that are contained at the end of the page were more valuable to me than the text that could be edited by the world.

An assignment in my graduate course asked me to edit my school district's page on Wikipedia. I immediately felt that I was overstepping my boundaries as a teacher for this school district. I am a representative of the school district; however, I do realize that the page is public and has the ability to be edited by the countless masses. I familiarized myself with the mechanics of editing a Wikipedia page, but decided to only update with a little information. Our school district houses and maintains health clinic that services the community. In addition, I added a link to our athletics' page since there existed an Athletics heading without any following text.