Thursday, May 20, 2010

As I started this project I really had no idea what article i would like to edit. I finally decided to edit the article titled "Drumline." I decided that this would be a fun article to be a part of since I am very passionate about the subject. In the beginning I mad a few edit just to see if anyone would edit any of them or begin to add on. Intentionally I decided to misspell something to see if anyone would catch it. This is a user based edited website so I was curious to see if other users would even catch my intentional error. A few days passed and I started to get worried that no one would respond. I keep frequently checking the wiki page and after a while a few sparks were made. I noticed that the few users that edited were adding their take on what they felt was important about drumline. One user you could tell was particularly devoted to proper grammar and spelling. The user also felt that drumline should be two words, so the user edited ever word in the article. I felt that it was interesting to see how different users edited certain parts. If the users were anything like me they probably gravitated more to the section that meant the most to them or that they were a part of for the longest. All-in-all I felt like this was an interesting project because even though I knew that wikipedia was an edited encyclopedia, a user base edited encyclopedia to be exact, I did not fully understand how it worked. Editing a page is very simple and it made me realize how inaccurate some of the information could be on the website. There were not many major changes. As I said earlier one user gravitated to grammatical errors and some technical wording. Other users just added snippets of information about different sections, such as where the front ensemble might be placed or how a cymbal line may use different size cymbals to create different tones.

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