Day 1: I am learning about the project, trying to understand what it is that I have to do. I didn’t expect to be working on Wikipedia for this project. It was surprising to me because I was taught to not use Wikipedia throughout school. Learning about the Women in Red was interesting and helped me understand why we were going to work with Wikipedia. Choosing a username was difficult because I didn’t want it to be too feminine so it wouldn’t affect me trying to write an article.
Day 2: I am struggling to choose who to do my research on. I don’t really have an idea about who I want to pick. I have been looking through the list and I’ve seen a couple names that seem interesting but when I search them up theres not much that pops up. I didn’t think it would be this difficult to choose someone to do a research on but then again it is from the Women in Red so it makes sense to not really find much about these women.
Day 3: Now that I have chosen who I want to research, I am having difficulty trying to find information about them. I have only found one article that helped me learn more about Florence Hutchings. There is another women with the same name and I see more articles about her but not much about the one I’m doing research for. Not finding many sources was expected and I knew it was going to be difficult in the process of doing this project.
Day 4: I have decided to take a break from researching and play the adventure game on Wikipedia. When I first tried playing the game it was a bit confusing. I felt like I was doing it wrong so I chose to try it another day. I have completed the game today but I’m not sure if I did it correctly since it was still confusing but I was able to learn a couple things about how to work on Wikipedia from it.
Day 5: Looking for more sources has not been easy. I found another source but I obviously need more. This part of the project has been difficult and it seems like it will take some time to find the sources I need.
Day 6: After looking for a while I have found another source. The progress I have so far made me realize that not all the information needed can be found quick especially for this project.
Day 7: The sources I found can be useful but I am still trying to find a variety of sources. I am currently trying to find videos or other different sources I can use. I will continue to do my research although I would’ve been nice if it wasn’t difficult to find sources.
I agree with the challenge of day 1 of creating a gender neutral name for wikipedia. When looking at the talks in wikipedia its common users with feminine names get their works reverted more often or questioned.
The same thing happened to me with my research, I could only find one article the person I chose.