User:Eeeeekaj

Myself
My name is Jake Colman of Leicester, I'm 21 years young and studying Design for Digital Media in my second year at the University of Hull, Scarborough Campus.

Introduction
The plan for me is to create a Wikipedia page for the Scarborough Maritime, concentrating mainly on the Scarborough Bombardment.

We chose this project as a group as we felt it was something different for us to experience and research, we found the whole idea and story really interesting, we also felt that because of its importance in the history of Scarborough and its part in the First World War, that it needs to be more appreciated and known to people to what actually happened.

So far, as a collaboration, we have created the page HMS Lynx (1913) from scratch, including lots of information on the story behind the boat in relation to the bombardment, the details of the boat, its captain, including references.

Related Pages


 * HMS Hardy
 * First page created in relation to the Scarborough Bombardment
 * Scarborough Bombardment

Other Group Members

 * User:02selleg
 * User:Alexhapps

Content
For my project, we (my group) decided to concentrate on the Scarborough Bombardment. We chose this rather than LoveBytes as we all agreed it seemed an interesting subject and something we hadn’t focused any study on before. Whilst the Scarborough Bombardment has a Wiki page – some of the ships involved do not. We decided to create a Wiki page for the British ship, HMS Lynx.

It was very difficult to find a vast amount of information on the boat, with it being 100 years old, we did find significant and important information on the boat, mainly from websites, some of which were dedicated to war ships. We also found a few books/journals with added information, this information was more useful as the books were old and the information is more reliable.

In our group, we started off by giving each other set task, to find out information on a certain subject about the boat, mine was to gather information on the history/storyline of the boat. After we had enough information, I created the Wikipedia page for HMS Lynx. We’ve since gradually been adding information, including references/citations, imagery and also the size/dimensions of the boat.

My user page is a basic summary of myself, including pictures, it also states the subject I’ll be concentrating on whilst on Wikipedia, with related pages. I also have quick links to the user pages of my fellow group members.

Understanding
Since joining Wikipedia I‘ve enhanced my knowledge of how to not just collect information and edit pages, but to do it correctly.


 * I’ve learnt how to create pages correctly, by giving it the proper name, clean layout, referenced information, proper grammar and also how to do things such as images/tables/category column/citation lists.


 * I’ve also learnt to do hyperlinks to other Wikipedia pages whenever possible for certain words/events/or even places. This gives readers an easier usability to navigate through Wikipedia as a whole rather than doing separate searches constantly.


 * I’ve learnt how to contribute correctly to other Wikipedia pages, on what the page is already missing.


 * I’ve learnt how to ‘view history’ on pages (especially our groups own) and edit our page accordingly to what other Wikipedian’s suggest to do to improve the page.

'''Over all I have learnt a lot of useful information to being a Wikipedia user and most of the basics to being Wikipedia user. I’ve also learnt how to create a Wikipedia page correctly. I now feel very comfortable on using Wikipedia as a user.'''

Problems Encountered

 * The original problem we encountered a as a group was that we probably should have waited to gather more information before initially creating the Wikipedia page on HMS Lynx. We had a lot of other, fellow Wikipedian’s commenting on how to improve the page (which isn’t necessarily bad as it shows engagement) but we probably needed more information and correct citations before creating the page so early.


 * Our other problem we encountered was that we struggled to even out the tasks between us, and so it confused us as to who was doing which tasks when editing our page.


 * The only problem I felt that we had with our actual HMS Lynx page whilst editing was finding appropriate references to use for our page, this proved difficult as the HMS Lynx itself sunk 100 years ago as already stated.

Engagement

 * I’ve experienced a lot of engagement on Wikipedia since joining, mainly with our page. Other Wikipedian’s have commented on how to improve my page, which we as a group have gone on to do, I’ve had other users thanking me for my contributions to their pages and also thanking me for the edits on our own page.


 * I joined the “TeaHouse” and introduced myself, explaining the reasoning for joining Wikipedia and what I hope to achieve.


 * As a group we commonly used each others Talk Pages to interact with each other, explaining what one another could do.


 * Other Wikipedian’s have helped me understand exactly what a page needs, what is correct and what can be improved by either editing the page themselves or writing a comment on how I can do it myself (which was very useful).