User:Jared puerta/sandbox

Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
Everything I read in the Wikipedia article on Civic Technology felt unbiased and was filled with several statistics. However, I am not sure if the sentence "As the field of civic technology advances further through the coming years it seems as though apps and handheld devices will become a key focus for development as more companies and municipalities reach out to developers to help with specific issues" from the article has any bias or opinion to it. One one side, it is essentially well-known that technology is advancing and is becoming the focus of development for several companies. On the other, however, I am not sure if a Wikipedia article should make that judgement for the reader. I would say that would be the only part that distracted me.

Talk:Civic technology (Latest edit)

Possible articles to work on
The Cybercrime article is one that I am definitely interested in. There is no discussion in the talk page for the article, which was interesting. One of the only edits I would consider making is adding another example of Cybercrime using the computer as a tool. I would add "Intellectual Property Theft" to that section, because I don't see it anywhere else, and the concept of piracy is very much a crime that is not talked about enough. I would post a section in the talk page asking if Piracy should be added into the article.

I am also interested in the Hackathon article. I love the discussion being had in the talk page for the Hackathon article. I definitely noticed how the comments in the talk page have transformed the page over the years. I noticed that the "notable events" section in the article was a little light, so I wanted to bring up adding Cal Hacks, which is UC Berkeley's version of a hackathon. Over 2,200 people attended CalHacks last in 2019, so there is definitely interest in the topic. However, that led me to see how much information there was on CalHacks in the first place. There is no wikipedia page for CalHacks, so I am actually interested in creating one for it. There are some wikis for other school's hackathons, so it would follow a similar template.

CalHacks (Draft)
CalHacks is a non-profit organization that is known for hosting an annual Hackathon that participates in the Major League Hacking league. The organization is ran by students at University of California, Berkeley.

Finalize your topic/Find your sources
I plan on creating an article on CalHacks, which is the hackathon that UC Berkeley holds every year. I plan on describing what CalHacks is, and go year by year and say how many attendees each year had, and what some of the main highlights of CalHacks that year had. I am taking inspiration from the template that HackMIT and MHacks are using to describe their schools' hackathon. I currently have articles from the first annual CalHacks in 2014, up to 2017. I am still searching for articles from 2017-now that contain who the guest speakers were, and what some of the highlighted projects ended up being.