"But whats to edit?" That was the first thought that crossed my mind as we where jokingly tasked to edit Wikipedia. was the goal to just piss off some random editor who would now have to go back and fix it? did we need to make some inside joke like some friends of mine? Just do a bit of cyber tagging like some random villain would? How does someone simply destroy the collective wisdom of many collaborators on a simple whim? well thank you professor for not having us find out about that. I would like to have seen the story of "Michigan class wants to destroy education!" on various blogs and news sites. Ah well..
If I had to choose a section I would edit I would join the countless other geeks and nerds in the editing of various geek topics. I know my history of video games and could likely fix several errors if needed...but I wont because I am correct that there are plenty of others working on that right now. Editing Wikipedia would be boring because I would just be another nerd on the edit warpath. Most of the entire site is run by oddballs like us. Why else is there only 2,528 words devoted to the founding fathers of our country...but 6,794 words devoted just to the list of characters from the entire Star Wars franchise. I realize that word count does not mean everything but its interesting what gets more of the attention. In the end if I was going to REALLY edit some wiki I would instead join TvTropes.org. At least there we geeks and nerds can point and laugh about all of it. A site that gives Wikipedia the trope of "dude wheres my changes?" is simply a win.
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by the way here is the tvtrope article on Wikipedia if anyone was interested.
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I have to say I am always amazed by your posts. You always creatively find a way to research something about our topic and add it to your posts. I never would have thought to search something like word count and compare two articles. Also, it was interesting you knew of another type of site like Wikipedia, TvTropes.org. I have never heard of the site but that is probably because I've never searched for such a site. It's always interesting to hear of other sites or technological things that our classmates know of.
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