User talk:Mailele

Welcome
Hi Mailele, and welcome to the course! Please tell us something about yourself. Which institution are you from, and what is your name? --Slashme (talk) 07:21, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

My name is Mercy Moyo. I am an Assistant Program Officer at ITOCA. I recently completed my Bachelor of Information Science with the UNISA. I am currently studying for a Bachelor of Arts Honors in information Science with the same institution.

--Mailele (talk) 10:45, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the question on my talk page, Mercy! I've answered it there, so that the other students can also benefit. --Slashme (talk) 11:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Dear David. I am currently doing the exercise for Wednesday the 17th of October. You said one can compare two selected revisions from the "View History Tab", I managed to do that on the 5th article in the list and I am taken to a page with the edits and there is a statement on top of the page saying "32 intermediate revisions by 16 users not shown", please explain on how to go about locating these revisions that are not showing on this page.--Mailele (talk) 10:08, 22 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi again, Mercy! I've left some comments on your work here, but let me just say congratulations on making such a good effort to go through the material in a structured way.  You're way ahead of the average!! --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Wednesday 17 October Exercises - The history on this page goes back to the 13th of September 2002. - People could use the revision history to assess the edits that were made about a certain topic and find out if the edits are correct by checking in other authoritative sources.
 * Correct! --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Thursday 18 October

Exercise 1

Students can check the accuracy of Wikipedia sources by viewing the editing history and by searching for other authoritative sources of information that can compliment the Wikipedia articles.Students can also use the reference section of Wikipedia to search for the Peer reviewed articles on their topic of study so that instead of citing Wikipedia as the source of reference they can instead cite the referenced source


 * Correct again! --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Exercise 2

Students can be made aware that an encyclopedia is not the right place to end their research into a topic by advising them that encyclopedia such as Wikipedia can be edited by anyone so information from encyclopedias should be complimented by additional information fro peer reviewed articles.


 * Partly true, but how about a traditional encyclopedia? It's edited by a team of experts, so surely it's an authoritative source?  Why should a student not be satisfied after reading about a topic in a normal encyclopedia? --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Exercise 3

Students who are taught to edit Wikipedia should learn analyzing the revision history of an article and differentiate between a good and bad edit.


 * Basically true; we will discuss further how one can form a reasonable judgement on what constitutes a good edit. --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Exercise 4

Wikipedia can benefit from Africa by getting content on any subject from the people all over the continent. Africa can benefit from Wikipedia by using it as a source of information.

--Mailele (talk) 12:46, 22 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes! Specifically, Africa has a lot of information that has not been well covered by the average Wikipedia editor, and Wikipedia, as a source of freely available knowledge, can help our students make quick strides in knowledge and in integration into the digital space. --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Friday 19 October

1. The first article chosen is about Mount Kenya on this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kenya. I can rank this article as a good article because it has a link to WikiProject which is a good sign to show that the article has been notices by people who are interested in the topic. Also the editing history shows that the page has undergone a lot of edits by various authors. The Article has also been allocated to an editor named of Mehmet Karatay

2. The Second article rated was the article on the Roman Catholic Church available through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church. This article is rated to be a good article since it is linked with two wikipedia projects, i.e Christianity and religion projects. The first edit was done on the 26th of April 2004 and the article has undergone under several revisions by may renowned authors up till today. The footnotes in this article provide links to the original articles where this information was taken and most of the link e.g the British Broadcasting Coop-oration are renowned and legitimate news broadcasting stations.

3. The 3rd article reviewed was the article on "Public library", available on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_library. I rate the quality of this article as medium based on the ratings awarded to it by the Library and information Science Portal and the Education Portal and also the suggestions put forward by the various editors of the article that have not been implemented.

4. The 4th review is on the article on Information and communications technology available on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology. I rate this article as a lower quality article because there is not so much information in the article. The talk page of this article rate it as a start-class article and it needs more information. The edit history shows that the articles has undergone a few changes by a few authors.

5.The fifth article rated is the article on Zimbabwe, available through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe. This article can be rated A classas it is part of three WikiProjects.The article has undergone several editing based on the editing history.

--Mailele (talk) 14:22, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Good work! --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Monday 20 October

I managed to edit an article on "mukaka" which means "milk" in english. The article changed can be viewed through this link http://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaka#Zvinogadzirwa_neMukaka

--Mailele (talk) 14:55, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Well done!! --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Tuesday 21 October

The three help topics that I can recommend to my studets are 1. Editing Wikipedia 2. Files 3. Asking questions

--Mailele (talk) 15:27, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


 * What about files? What about asking questions? --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Wednesday 22 October : Free as in "Freedom"

By clicking this "Save Page" button I will be agreeing to the Terms of Use for Wikipedia and releasing my contributions to WikiPedia.

--Mailele (talk) 15:37, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


 * That's it! Very important! --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Thursday 23 Oct. More freedom

If you upload a photo on wikipedia that you take from the internet and does not show who is the rightful owner of the photo you need to put a reference of the website where you got the photo to avoid wikipedia from deleting the photo.

--Mailele (talk) 16:08, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Not quite true! If you don't know who the rightful owner is, you have to find out before uploading. --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Friday 24 Oct.Wikipedia and young people

The difference between simple english wikipedia and the school selection is that the simple English wikipedia include topics of any nature whereas Topics on schools selection were chosen with the interests of children in mind, i.e. according to school curriculum, children activities and interests etc. Adult content was removed from the schools selection.

--Mailele (talk) 16:16, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


 * 100% correct! --Slashme (talk) 16:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Putting language tabs on your user page
Hi Mercy!

I know the course is finished but I have one more exercise for you! Put the following code on your user page (to see the code, click "edit" - also note, don't put it on this page: it's your talk page!) --Slashme (talk) 22:38, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Dear David

Thank you, I just completed the assignment.

--Mailele (talk) 13:56, 8 November 2012 (UTC)