User:Nursingstudent567/sandbox

•	Critiquing articles: What did you learn about Wikipedia during the article evaluation? How did you approach critiquing the article you selected for this assignment? How did you decide what to add to your chosen article? I learned so much about the world behind that face-page you see. The sandboxes, talk page and editing pages have an entirely different format. When starting out it feels like another language, like computer programming. But with practice it became easier. I mostly chose to look at the wording at the sources used in my article critique. I added content based on therapies I knew existed but were not summarized in the current version of the article. I also made suggestions on the talk pages for sections to be added to articles. •	Summarizing your contributions: include a summary of your edits and why you felt they were a valuable addition to the article. How does your article compare to earlier versions? I edited a lot of content that was inappropriately worded, mostly making insinuations about results of studies having proved a hypothesis. As we all know, research supports but never proves and our wording is so important. I also added content for therapies that were not covered or extended content that was inadequately covered. •	Peer Review: If your class did peer review, include information about the peer review process. What did you contribute in your review of your peers article? What did your peers recommend you change on your article? There was no review on Wikipedia, but suggestions and review was made to peers during class time. Suggesting sources to add and ways to better word sentences. •	Feedback: Did you receive feedback from other Wikipedia editors, and if so, how did you respond to and handle that feedback? I did, most was fairly negative. I found there was some very disrespectful and bias beliefs about student editors. Much of the feedback I received was editors changing their content that I had edited back to their original wording. Few provided explanations, most simply told me my contributions were not beneficial and the article was better before I made contributions. •	Wikipedia generally: What did you learn from contributing to Wikipedia? How does a Wikipedia assignment compare to other assignments you've done in the past? How can Wikipedia be used to improve public understanding of our field/your topic? Why is this important? It is a whole new world. This is very fast paced and articles are continually evolving and being policed for inaccurate content to be removed. It was interesting to be critiqued by so many people rather than just one professor editing and evaluating a research paper. Wikipedia can be a good basis for factual information for the community to use as a resource, however, that takes a lot of dedication from editors who are willing to go the extra mile and make sure content is factual and worded appropriately.