User:TyraWashington/sandbox

Reflective Essay
learned that wikipedia can actually be credible if you take some time to research and do things appropriately. What I did was write up the analysis portion about an article that actually discusses some points that were made in Being Digital. I Liked the article and it made some interesting points about the relationship we have today with Being Digital and how it differs from what being digital was years ago. It once had a different meaning and I think Negroponte and a few others had brought upon this idea of this human-computer relationship there is with computers. Once I found the article I thought he was going against Negroponte, but after reading I see he actually agrees with viewpoints and predictions Negroponte made and thats how I was able to come up with the portion that I contributed. I edited the "negroponte switch" by cleaning it up and making it presentable. I also did the reception portion and made sure I gave a summary of what the article was about. Then of course I did my contributions to the article which was showing how Thoms Hagid Analyzed Being Digital and included all the important points of the article. I feel it enhanced the article and made it more informational, and i also made sure it had less errors and was cited correctly within it as well. When I did my peer Review I commented and reviewed the Culture article and I talked about some minor and major edits they could make to improve their article. On my peer reviews I saw they stated it needed more details and it needed to be grammatically edited and changed to be more of a great Wiki article. My classmates peer review was to make sure it was grammatically correct and to add more sources. during this process, I did not receive any other edits from wikipedia editors.

Contributing to Wikipedia is actually one of the less challenging but definitely not easy things to do. This entire site is very confusing and I would need years of practice to fully understand it. However, I do feel I have the basics and contributing was something I feel I took seriously made sure I gave the main viewpoints and cited everything correctly. It was definitely a learning experience. I honestly would've been fine with a normal group essay assignment on Microsoft words and turned it in. It was very tedious to work on wikipedia, but its always great to learn new things, so I did that. I'm sorry to be too critical but once we've been accustomed to something for years it's very hard not to love and be adjusted to it ( microsoft word). I'm not sure what to do to consider for improvements regarding Wikipedia, but it was interesting to learn something new.