User:Chotanner/sandbox

I was born on July 23, 1996 in Houston, Texas. I am 22 years old, currently attending the University of Colorado Boulder.

Article Evaluation

 * Everything in the Wikipedia article is relevant to Hurricane Michael. There are many sub-categories though.
 * Nothing is out of date since this was such a recent natural disaster. Everything is up to date.
 * It has a decent amount of images, graphs, charts, etc.
 * The article is 100% neutral, there are no biased claims made.
 * The aftermath is underrepresented, possibly due to unknown amount of damage done. This information will probably come out soon.
 * The links in the citations work.
 * All of the facts are represented with appropriate, reliable references.
 * A lot of the 'talk" section involves people asking for images or graphs to be moved or removed. There is not that much conversation about the actual content, but more so the display of the page.
 * It says that "this article is of interest to multiple WikiProjects"
 * The way Wikipedia discusses the topic differs from how we would in class because everybody in class has their own opinions and viewpoints, where we can freely express that. You cannot do that on Wikipedia, it needs to be neutral and unbiased.

Discussion: Thinking about sources and plagiarism

 * Blog posts and press releases are poor sources of reliable information because most of the conversation is opinion based. While there can be facts found, it's important to remember that Wikipedia is solely fact based and needs to be completely neutral.
 * A company's website will be biased, attempting to portray themselves as the "better company", when this may not be the case.
 * Copyright infringement is any infringement up on the rights of a copyright holder. Plagiarism is taking someone's original work and using it as your own.
 * To avoid close paraphrasing, you should find information from a variety of good sources, understand the information presented, and write it out by using your own language.

Article selection for TwitchCon (one example of the many articles I'd like to edit)

 * The article's content is relevant to the topic. There isn't much content at all though.
 * The very little written content is written neutrally. It has simply stated where TwitchCon has happened over the past few years.
 * Yes, each claim has a citation.
 * The citation's are mostly coming from Twitch's official website, so yes, they are reliable.

List of potential articles: TwitchCon, Twitch.tv, Ninja, Hurricane Michael - or some sort of recent extreme weather event, Gunna (rapper), Tiny Desk Concerts hosted by NPR Music

Discussion: What's a content gap?

 * Sounds to me like a content gap would be an article in which certain facts or information is left out or not talked about. There is essentially a "gap" in the article where there is missing information. Possible ways to identify this would be by doing research prior to reading the Wiki article, and doing further analysis on any key facts that might be missing.
 * Content gaps may arise simply due to errors made by individuals or there may not be that much oversight on the Wikipedia page. If it's an unpopular or brand new Wiki page, there might not be as many editors or contributors on the page.
 * It does matter who writes on Wikipedia. Wikipedia wants as many contributors as possible, but I'm sure they wouldn't want a bunch of biased people editing on their website that would create controversial content.
 * Being unbiased on Wikipedia means being neutral - not creating content on the topic based on your opinion, but rather on the facts. This definition of "bias" translates similarly to my every day life.

Editing existing article: "TwitchCon"
TwitchCon is a convention for the live streaming video platform Twitch.tv devoted to Twitch and the culture of video game streaming. The first convention was held in 2015.

The most recent convention was held from October 26-28, 2018 in San Jose. - adding onto sentence above

Ideas for content to add to TwitchCon article

 * Location and dates - look at Comic Con Wikipedia (make a table)
 * Add "Events" section
 * Add "Attendance" section
 * Add "Exhibitors" section
 * History, activities

Ideas for Module Assignment #4

 * Impact of death of Stephen Hillenburg on SpongeBob related Wikipedia articles

- How many characters have been added to Stephen's Wikipedia page since his death?

- Impact of Stephen's death on SpongeBob characters

- Daily statistics, trends, frequent word choice in articles, how much more attention has his Wikipedia page gotten since his death?

- Comparing languages

- How many unique editors?

- Revision activity/history

- Top languages by number of revisions/editors

- Plot a timeline of page view activity

- Correlations to other wikipedia pages?

- Most correlated/anti-correlated articles?

- What is BeautifulSoup?

- When was the first edit to articles for Stephen, SpongeBob, Squidward, etc.

- Plot how the article sizes have changed over time

- Number of editors that have changed over time

- How to say SpongeBob in different languages?

- SpongeBob characters in the Korean language

- How many times have they changed the picture for Stephen or SpongeBob characters

- How many times is each article viewed per day?

- Create plots or graphs

- Number of links in each article

- Wikidata?

- Look at GitHub for examples of Wikipedia data in Python/Jupyter (google Jupyter notebook gallery)