Evaluation Wikiality

Design Specifications

I was supposed to use the fact on the CNN Haiti Earthquake site, but for the reason I have said earlier, I was unable to. In the beginning of this unit, I checked other sites to see if they had the same numbers as CNN, and they did. Because it the earthquake had just happened, the number of deaths were not all found. But now, recently, I checked and the numbers had increased because the more they dig and as time goes by, more people are being identified as dead. So now, other sites other than Wikipedia say around 200,000. So now, it turns out that Wikipedia is right, and we don’t even need to change the information on Wikipedia.

Design Specifications
1. Use the fact of the web site of CNN including a few other reliable sources too (BBC, FOX)2. Add the sources to the reference on Wikipedia.
3. Follow the steps of the method of finding inaccuracy in Investigation.
The first design specification was completed because we looked at other reliable sources like BBC and FOX and care.org. The second design specification was not achieved because we did not change information so we cannot add the source to the reference section on the page. The third is not very provable, but we did follow the method because we did find an inaccuracy.

Criterion A
In criterion A we got into pairs and answered a set of questions about Wikipedia by researching. I got together with Temuulen. In the first class, we researched very neatly and organized, but then in the next class, she did not come to school. So I had a hard time finding some of the information alone. But we answered them and then we had to find a method of finding an inaccuracy. I think we answered the questions not very detailed. We found a method which I think was a good one. The investigation was the hardest part of this unit because it was hard to find all the right answers to all the questions. It was also very hard because we had to find an inaccuracy on Wikipedia and there are very few wrong things. I had to search very specifically and after researching about 50 things, I found one, and it turned out to be right in the end. I researched many topics like Mongolian things, obesity things and Barbies. I tried to look mostly at things that I knew a lot about.

Criterion B
On my blog I copied and pasted the part of Wikipedia that had the inaccuracy. I highlighted the specific thing red and on the bottom in green I wrote the correction that I will do. The design criterion was very easy because it was just changing words from a text. At the bottom I sited my source.

Criterion D
I logged in with the school account on Wikipedia and tried to change it but there was no edit sign. Other sections had the edit sign but the piece of information that we wanted to change was in the introduction and it turned out we cannot change things in the introduction. So we failed to achieve our goal. To have achieved our goal, we could have gotten a piece of information that was not in the introduction.