Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Criterion B: Our edits

After finding a page which we thought contained errors (the Gaia hypothesis), we set to researching it and correcting these potential mistakes. As we found out, there were indeed a few of these which were however not too massive. For example, the article referred to a controversial sentence as only being in one book, but as our research found it was actually included in all of the books.

Here is our modified page which we have yet to upload. The text we removed is striked, what we added is in green and our explanations of why we did these changes are between parentheses in italics.

We also have a source for every piece of information, which we will footnote on the actual Wikipedia page. While changing this article, we came up with three design specifications which should show us that our edits really are making the article better. These are:
  1. Every sentence containing some sort of information should have a source.
  2. The edited section must be gramatically correct.
  3. One week after we upload our edits, our section must not have been majorly edited, as there shouldn't be a need for it if we did our job well.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Sarah, I didn't find any new information and I also think the corrections were good. I guess we should go with this edited version =)Thank you

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