COMS 321 Santa Monica College Wikipedia Contribution Questions

This is a worksheet to let me know about your Wikipedia contribution. So you want to contribute to Wikipedia BEFORE you complete this worksheet.

Answer the following questions about your contribution to Wikipedia. Be as complete as possible in your responses.

Complete these questions before you complete your Wikipedia paper because the analysis section of the paper cannot be written until you contribution to Wikipedia.

1.What was your user name on Wikipedia?

2. What was the exact title of the entry to which you contributed? (Use the title or heading the Wikipedia uses.)

3. Provide a copy of your WP contribution below, including the source you included with that contribution. (You can cut-and-paste the contribution from WP.) Include all the contributions you made (if you made more than one)

4.What was your reason for contributing to that entry? Or why did you choose to make that contribution?

5. Did you use any resources to figure out how to contribute to Wikipedia (such as watching a YouTube video, talking to friends who contributed, etc.)? Were those resources helpful?

6. What do you think about the process of contributing to Wikipedia? Was it user friendly? What was easy about contributing to Wikipedia? What was hard?

7. Now having contributed to WP, what is your opinion about WP as a reliable and accurate reference source? Support your answer with evidence and reasoning.

8. Other than WP’s reliability or accuracy, what else does contributing to and learning about WP teach you? This is a 5-point question so my expectation is that you connect this experience to larger issues, such as knowledge creation, the power of knowledge, bias and conflicts of interest when creating knowledge, hegemony, whose voices are listened to in society/whose voices are stifled, and the various topics listed in the assignment guidelines.