User:Philosoph8588//Heritage studies and ICT 2020-2021

Hello, my name is Philosoph8588, my matriculation number is: 1073021. Working on Wikipedia was a great experience for me. It enlarged my understanding that the part on the story which is untold is as much important as the part which is told. Additionally, I learned a lot about the Wikipedia communities. To work with them created an even bigger awareness of the need to respect someone else intellectual property and the importance of referencing in order to trace the original ideas. My contributions to Wikipedia are things from the region where I come from and care about. The article about my hometown Elsoff was a pleasant experience because I like the fact to be responsible for an increasing access to information about my hometown. The article about the Camino de Santiago (route descriptions) represents a useful contribution to me. The section of It i described is close to the place of my parents, where I spend most of the time of my childhood. It makes me happy to have contributed to it.

1. Description of contribution


 * Article Elsoff (town)

The contribution in the article of Elsoff is about the cultural and sits of the town. The English article in comparison with the German was not sufficiently elaborated. Since the source on the German article of Elsoff was valid, I just needed to translate the components accurately. Since the terms where rather technical, a great amount of time where invested to be as on point as possible. In order to be in line with the rest of the article I chose the same style for my contribution. Important subjects where linked internally with other Wikipedia articles. I added open-source photos to my contribution and giving them their first English description. At last I linked my source to the article and wrote about my contribution in the discussion section.

Additionally, I made some minor improvements on the German article.


 * Article Camino de Santiago (route description) (heritage site) :

In the beginning it was difficult to decide the kind and the place of contribution since there exists already a lot of article and the topic is profoundly important. I found that the section close to my hometown wasn't edited yet and I figured that this would be a good contribution. I added a paragraph about the path of the Lahn-Rhine-Camino. It is a route description of two sections of the Camino de Santiago. Therefore, described the important stages of the trail and giving some additional information about it. I respected the existing layout and adapted my contribution to it. Further, I linked keywords internally and externally where I thought it gives good information. I added a opensource photo from Wiki Commons and i linked GPS coordinates on the bottom of the trail. In the end I put my sources under the section of references and wrote about my contribution in the discussion section.

2. Links of the articles:

Town
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsoff

Heritage site
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago_(route_descriptions)

3. Discussion:

In line with the assignment, a comment was left on the comments page of all the pages I worked on:

Town
 * https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Elsoff_(Westerwald)(German version)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Elsoff (English version)

Heritage site
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Camino_de_Santiago_(route_descriptions)

4. References:

Town
 * Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz (Ed.) Nachrichtliches Verzeichnis der Kulturdenkmäler – Westerwaldkreis (Memento from 07.01.2021 in Internet Archive) Bergamo 2021 pp. 10 f.

During the work on Wikipedia I came across the Momento style of presentation information by respecting their integrity and displaying the totality of it in a given moment.

Heritage site
 * Schäfer, Karl-Josef (2009). Der Jakobsweg - Wetzlar nach Lahnstein (in German) (3. ed.). Norderstedt: Books on Demand. ISBN 978-3-8334-9475-8.
 * Scholz, Wolfgang (2019). Outdoor – Der Weg ist das Ziel, Lahn-Camino und Rhein-Camino (in German) (1. ed.). Welver: Conrad Stein Verlag.

5. Stakeholders:

Correspondence with stakeholder took place. I tried to get a photo of a cultural site in Elsoff but I couldn't get any answer on my mails. I corresponded with the Author (in German) of a source of mine about integrating his work to Wiki Commons but he could not furnish the permission yet. Further I called other sources but nothing concrete came out of it.

6. Reuse of existing content:

I added photos from Wiki Commons to my parts.

Town Heritage site
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elsoff-Mittelhofen_-_Katholische_Filialkirche_(KD.RLP_3_07.2015).jpg
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elsoff-Mittelhofen_-_Brunnenstra%C3%9Fe_11_(KD.RLP)_und_Laufbrunnen_(KD.RLP_1_07.2015).jpg
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PS_Braubach.gif

Accounts were created at OpenStreetMap and at Internt Archive but nothing was added to it.