Josephine’s Online Technology Journal

Explain the project, discussing its relevance to you and your life

This project is continued with our last one- “Wikiality”. We are supposed to find any article on Wikipedia that has inadequate information. Or you can even create a new article if there is no subject related to it! Well, first off, Wikipedia is an extremely famous and a popular site for all netizens and students across the globe. It would definitely be nice if everything on the site is 100% accurate, however, by the fact that anyone can log in and edit/delete/add anything makes it a few percent unreliable. For the last project, we worked together in groups to get some general idea and learn how to deal with Wikipedia. This time; it is strongly based on an independent work. This project gives each and one of us great opportunity to improve us investigative skills by both trying to research an inadequate article as well as researching more information related to it. If the topic is related to important issues in life, then probably it could be helpful.

Method for finding an inadequate section
1) First serf through Wikipedia any topics that interest you or the ones that you are concerned about. It is better if you deeply know about that topic.
2) Check whether or not they have inadequate amount of information
3) If you can’t find any article that has ‘inadequate’ amount of information; then you should look for a new article that you can create new.
4) Double check that the new article you are trying to write is not listed anywhere on Wikipedia.
5) If you are editing the article; go back to the page.
6) Read the article carefully 3 times
7) Now that you know what is on the article; research the topic on other sites
Find information to make the article better

Comparing this method to the method that I did with the last project, I think I changed a couple of them. Because this project is about finding inadequate information on an article, it takes more to research and investigate; rather than finding an information that is inaccurate. I changed my mind because I wanted to be more accurate, and have a guideline for the project.

I chose a topic on “Goat milk ice cream”. I was hoping Wikipedia would have some information written on it; however, there is no article written related to it. Ms. Wilson said it’s okay!

Brainstorm of what new information I will need to include in my paragraph(s)

The information that I will write about the goat milk ice cream will be brief and in general:
-what they are
-how they are made
-what they taste like
-some companies that make goat milk ice creams
-different flavors
-how much they usually cost
-where you can buy them (in what countries)

Research to back up your list of ideas, crossing of any list items for which you cannot find reliable citations

Seems as if all the necessary information that I need to research are all on a Korean website. I visited a couple of different blogs and they have some really good information. I will have to translate them and write it on Wikipedia. This, however, could be a problem since the Wikipedians might not approve it and delete my work! Here are some links to the sites that I’ve visited today.

http://kin.naver.com/detail/detail.php?d1id=9&dir_id=90208&eid=icWf5LbM546Ew6UOZeCFAu34jymKhR78&qb=v7C80iC+xsDMvbrFqbiy&pid=fsjN9doQsDhssu/Stg4sss–160117&sid=SAac2y6FBkgAAEh4OVw

http://kin.naver.com/detail/detail.php?d1id=9&dir_id=90208&eid=YYmdAtfyTjv3VegF4b0zlt7unSkI9UKy&qb=v7C80iC+xsDMvbrFqbiy&pid=fsjDaloQsCwsscPkEvwsss–312631&sid=SAajbfagBkgAAB6bII0

The first one has information how to make goat milk ice cream. The second one is about more in-depth infos!