Day 1: I haven’t created an account on Wikipedia yet, but I found my red name, Jenna Baronette. She is a Canadian and an emergence nurse at the North Bay Regional Health Centre. She is a female activist fighting for sexual trafficking.
Day 2: I did more search on Jenna Baronette. She was an emergency nurse trained to work for sexual assault and domestic violence victims. She was awarded the Outstanding Service in Women’s Wellness Award in 2015. She brought up sexual trafficking as a huge issue within the Ontario community. She brought attention to this issue and wanted people to help to solve this issue in the community because the majority of the victims were women.
Day 3: I created a Wikipedia account, my username is Aawaan. I did the Wikipedia Adventure, it helped me to get to know how to use Wikipedia such as editing, leaving a comment, inserting links, pictures etc.
Day 4: I was looking through some Talk pages on Wikipedia. There was a comment made by a person who said that the page was crap. But underneath that comment, other people said that the page was great. I can see what people thought about a page and can find that some people are biased and some people are more neutral. There are also people adding onto the information to help people to understand better. I also checked out the View History Page, it showed every edit that people had done to this page. It’s kind of interesting to see how many times and what they had edited into the page.
Day 5: I edited a page which I think needs improvement. It’s an interesting experience to edit on my own. Sometimes it’s kind of confusing but I still got it in the end.
Day 6: I started to work on writing a page for my red name women. It is hard because there is not much information about her. All I could find was one article that talked about her. But I did manage to find her LinkedIn page, it talked about her education. I guess that is some new information about the red name women.
Day 7: Overall, as a reflection, Wikipedia is kind of hard to use because the system was kind of different from what I had used before. And doing research using Wikipedia was also kind of hard because of the uncertainties. It is hard to tell whether or not it is a biased or neutral point of view and whether or not this information is reliable. Also, finding resources for the red name is hard because there is so little information about them. Some of them did not even have pictures. But the exercise of getting less red names is really meaningful because it shows that people are trying to change the prejudice of society.
I haven’t heard of Jenna Baronette, I’m excited to see what you gather! I’m so glad we have people fighting against sexual trafficking, something so inhumane. What I had not know was how prevalent an issue like sexual trafficking was like places in Ontario, Canada. From what I’ve heard around me, other first world countries are considered to be better off than America regarding sexual abuses. I do want to say that I like your username, it’s very unique, it reminds me of water. I wonder what your edit was, would you mind sharing that with us? I’m definitely with you on how frustrating it is to make your own page on wikipedia, I honestly don’t even think I have even made one, since it doesn’t really give you a button that says “Create your own page” but rather a subheading of a “Sandbox” and then having to publish it. Also who knew LinkedIn would come in handy to learn about her! Wikipedia is definitely a hard place to maneuver around but I can already tell that you’re doing a wonderful job with this project!
I agree that the Wikipedia system is kind of hard to use. I still didn’t figure out how to insert a picture of the person that I chose on Wikipedia.
I definitely agree with you, the website is pretty hard to use, editing it was confusing to me.