Wiki Up Your Life

Hi everyone! Last week we had to do a training in Wikipedia in order to learn how to be able to contribute to that community. The training consists of four main parts: the welcome and introduction section, Wikipedia's core principles, a section on basic editing and communicating skills, and finally a small section on some advanced topics. When going through this training, you have the option of creating a Wiki account that you can then use to make significant edits to any wikipedia entry that exists, or you can even make your own! If you are interested in doing this training, click here!

This training was very beneficial because I always wondered how Wikipedia became what it was. You can a wiki entry on almost anything that has every happened, and they are all pretty informative. This is because it is a collaborative community of people who just want to provide accurate information about different topics. If you happen to know a lot about a certain topic, then you can contribute to it on wikipedia!

I joined with a few of my classmates, and we contributed to a wiki stub in order to get our feet wet. We added information to a page about baby furniture, funny enough. If you want to check out that page, click on the photo (Note: This page was edited by my group in April of 2017 and is subject to change):

Contributing to this page was fun, and we actually felt good because we were a part of something much bigger than us. Wikipedia is a great way to get involved in a collaborative community, and I recommend trying it out! Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this week's post and here is a cute video to get you through the week: