The Roots Wikipedia Article

The Roots Wikipedia article was a little more tough to edit than the other articles I was working on throughout this project. The reason that it was so tough is because the article was very up to date and had almost any relevant information that I could think of. Additionally, since I am not an expert on the group, just a fan, it was a harder to know any extra information to add that wasn't already there. I did add a section about the upcoming events, which I thought was an important decision. Overall, the article was monitored pretty closely, and someone would make changes to the upcoming events and delete the old ones. Overall, this article seems to be kept up to date and worked on regularly so overall it should continue to improve in the future.

Links to Article Edits:
Wikipedia Edit Article 4
Wikipedia Article 4 Edit 2
Wikipedia Article 4 Edit 3

University of Delaware Wikipedia Article

For the University of Delaware Wikipedia article, the article seems to be an active one. There have been a significant number of changes made to this and I'm assuming that there are a good amount of students in the 477 classes making these changes. What is interesting though is that overall, changes have been made to the entire article. There hasn't been much focus on one section in particular, which i believe is something positive and helps to make the article better overall. As for my edits, they have stuck for now and I believe they are strong additions to the article.

Links to Article Edits:
Wikipedia Edit
Wikipedia Article 3 Edit 2
Wikipedia Article 3 Edit 3

Jonathan Dayton High School Wikipedia Article

The Jonathan Dayton High School article, I believed made some significant progress throughout my time editing it. With the help of me and others the article gained more substance and really began to give a lot more of a feel for the school. Before I really thought the article was lacking in certain areas, such as the sports and extracurricular activities, these are two areas that can be really important to students in high school. For many people, whether its a sport or an activity, can really be a big part of their high school experience. So overall I think the progress of this article has been very positive, there is still work to be done, but it is definitely improved.

Links to Article Edits:
Wikipedia Article 2 Edit
Wikipedia Article 2 Edit 2
Wikipedia Article 2 Edit 3

Springfield Wikipedia Article

The first article that I chose to edit was the Springfield Township article. Throughout the time that I was editing the article there were a few other editors who were also making corrections. These other editors would catch mistakes, such as the one I made where I accidentally didn't catch that a piece of information was already stated in the article, as well as add in references. For my edits I added some information about Springfield that I thought was good for the article. Changes were made by people on my edits, for example catching my mistake about the one fact, and we went back and forth a little in our opinions as to where this should be placed. So it kind of showed an interesting difference of opinion and how wikipedia really works. Overall, I think the article has made some slight improvements, nothing too drastic, throughout my time editing it.

Links to Article Edits:
First Wikipedia Edit
Wikipedia Article 1 Second Edit
Wikipedia Article 1 Edit 3

Class Material Post 4 - Stiuqxela Experiment

In class we have been discussing the stiuqxela search engine experiment. At the end of the stiuqxela experiment there is a very nice prize of a $500 donation to Thoroughbred Charities of America in your name in order to rescue a horse. What I thought was interesting about this experiment is that apparently I was right behind Mike's blog in the experiment. The reason I found that interesting is because I only had one small entry about stiuqxela on my blog. Originally, I would have thought that the only way to be up there in the Google search would've been to have more entries about stiuqxela and lots of links and things related to the experiment. Apparently, this is not always true and that there is a lot more to Search Engine Optimization. Possibly could it have to do with the activity on my blog being more frequent? Just an idea...

Also, another player has come into this experiment, an outside source who is apparently a friend of Mike's. Currently, his article about the stiuqxela experiment is number one in the Google search. The article is on the EzineArticles website and it is called The Mystery Behind Stiuqxela. Hopefully, by adding his link to my blog, this could help my standings, but we'll see because he seems to have a pretty tight hold on that number one spot.

Wikipedia Article 4 Edit 3

For my third edit on The Roots article I added a picture to the article, as well as read through and made some grammatical corrections. I think the picture I added was important because it shows the members of the group and it is different from the other pictures on the article now which are either of them performing or of album covers. Additionally, I added some links to the upcoming events section. This way if someone visits the site and sees this, and then wants to look into the venue where the event is being held, they can more easily do so with the wikipedia links as a start.

Wikipedia Article 3 Edit 3

For my third edit to the University of Delaware wikipedia article I added a section about the College of Arts and Sciences. I feel that the article should talk more in depth about each of the schools to give the reader a more detailed view about what Delaware is really about. For my previous edit I did the Alfred Lerner School of Business and Economics and hopefully, at some point when I have more time I can add more about each of the schools that Delaware has to offer.

Wikipedia Article 2 Edit 3

For my third edit to the Jonathan Dayton article on Wikipedia I added a section about the different clubs offered. I feel that the article was lacking on some key elements that the school should have on the Wikipedia site. So now with the clubs and the sports added it gives a little more insight into the school and not just the basics.

Required Bloglist Post 4

As I was searching through the required blog list, I saw a post on Global Neighbourhoods called Yahoo & Microsoft, Yet Again? Oh No!. I realized first that the Global Neighbourhoods blog is definitely one of my preferred blogs out of the list. I enjoy the way things are written and it's just more enjoyable and fun to read. But about the article...It spoke of the possible merger between Yahoo & Microsoft where Shel Israel gives his opinion on the matter. He believes that this would basically be a terrible move for both the companies. While these two giants are thinking about a possible merger, Google is growing and expanding and getting way ahead of the competition.

So, this merger could be great for Google, but not the best idea for Yahoo and Microsoft. According to the article, he believes a merger like this is basically doomed to fail and that most of these never work out. He also makes the statement that the two companies should know "size is not the only thing that matters." So while Yahoo and Microsoft are debating whether to merge, Google is continuing to succeed and grow.

Wikipedia Article 1 Edit 3

For my last edit on the Springfield Township article I added a line to the transportation section. The article mentioned the bus system but I think it is important to mention the convenience of the train system as well. Additionally, I realized that for my previous edit, I added something in the facts that was already at the beginning of the article that I must have overlooked, and saw that it had been removed for that reason. So I decided to move that fact into the interesting facts section of the article instead of the beginning because I felt that that was a more appropriate spot for it. Hopefully others will agree.