Monday, March 1, 2010

Uploading our changes

After finishing our design stage, Suugii and me were ready to put it up on Wikipedia. We logged on under the ISU account, and for the first time clicked the "edit" link. I was expecting the code of the Wikipedia article to be very neat, but it was quite hard to understand at first. There were messages, comments and tags all over the place. After quickly reading through the article, we figured out how most of the code worked:

Section titles were written like this: ==Section Title==
Links to other articles like this: [[Other article]]
References like this: Reference information
Template messages like this: {{Template message}}

We removed the template messages and added references as well as links. Once we were done, we uploaded our changes which were instantly put on the web for everyone to see. Even though I've been using Wikipedia for years, this was the first time I added something to it! You can see our changes to the Controversial Concepts section here.

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