Day 1:
- I created my account with the username of “This Name Shouldnt Be Taken.” It felt impossible to make a simple username but so many of my ideas were taken.
Day 2:
- I chose an activist named Adelaida Argüelles who is a Spanish Activist. I thought it would be interesting to read about someone that comes from my own culture.
I saw that there are online articles about her in spanish. I can read in Spanish, so I think this will help me improve my reading as I work on Adelaida Argüelles for my project.
Day 3:
- I am looking at different wikipedia pages.
- First I looked at the one for an anime series named “Naruto.” The page talks about the manga, tv series, video games, spins offs, and the story development. I went over the history page and noticed how there are people constantly making edits throughout the months. There have been some recently this month. There isn’t much on the discussion page, except for a few fans who are taking this article very seriously. Where they set it up for discussions due to technical terms they want to write on the page.
- I then looked at the video game called Minecraft that has a big community who added different sections such as the game itself, the mods that can be added, cultural impacts, awards, sales, education, and even music. Fans are constantly making edits for it as well. I checked on the discussion tab and saw that there have been copyright complaints and it was even discussed whether or not it should be deleted.
Day 4:
- Completed Wikipedia Adventure. Got to learn how to edit, make corrections, view history, and reply to others.
Day 5:
- Comparing two opposite gendered people on wikipedia.
- I first looked at Dwayne Johnson and noticed he has a lot of different sections that talk about his careers in life. Such as his college career, wwe career, acting, awards, and his early life. The article has a lot of references towards the bottom. The talk page has people wanting to make edits or add a few more topics. And people are constantly making edits.
- Then I looked at an article for Jenna Ortega and noticed how it is less compared to Dwayne Johnson. Here, the article focuses on her acting career only. While Dwayne’s had his college life and early life.
- There is alot going on in the talk page where people were discussing simply if the voice sample should be added in the article.
- People are still making constant edits for Jenna’s article almost everyday.
Day 6:
- Added edit for an web series called “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared.” I added in the section of Premise, “People theorized that Yellow’s guy name is “David”, especially now with the TV series hinting at it more and more.”
- In less than 5 minutes, someone immediately took it off because I didn’t have an reliable source.
I definitely understand where you’re coming from with your username, it took me a minute to even think about something, finally settling for a feminine username to see what some of the responses for it will be. I’ve never heard of Adelaida Argüelles either so I’m looking forward to what you’ll be able to gather. Props to you for reading articles in Spanish, even as a native learner, it can be difficult. I wonder what copyright claims you’re talking about, I might look up the Wikipedia page for Minecraft to see what was being discussed, thanks for peaking my interest up. I do think that for Jenna Ortega, most of the things we know about her are due to her career as she is a very private person but we should definitely never rule out the possibility of gender inequality in Wikipedia. Regarding your edit, I didn’t know people would be so quick to take things out! I wonder how you can cite a theory.
Also did you know that if you search up Adelaida Argüelles, this very post pops up?!
I did!!! After posting this, I would continue my research and one of the few websites I find is this