Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Wiki- Awsome


As part of our History of Libraries course we were asked to edit some Wikipedia articles.  These were my edits.

1) Library. Here is my first edit in the section "Library" where I added a good deal of information about Roman libraries.
21:41, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+2,488)‎ . . Library ‎ (Classical period (800 BC – 500 AD):  Added information on Roman libraries) (current)
I also added a talk section to appease the WikiGods
22:22, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+317)‎ . . Talk:Library ‎ (Classical Period:  new section) (current)
2)Nalanda University I then added an edit to the library section for Nalanda University and added a talk section to discuss my edits.
22:16, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+334)‎ . . Talk:Nalanda ‎ (current)
22:10, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+2,112)‎ . . Nalanda ‎ (Libraries:  Added information on the library at Nalanda) (current)
3) Richard de Bury.  I then did a lot of editing to the section on Richard de Bury which included adding a whole section on thePhilobiblon.  I also created a talk page to discuss these edits.
23:24, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+106)‎ . . Talk:Richard de Bury ‎ (New Section) (current)
23:24, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+464)‎ . . Talk:Richard de Bury ‎ (Religious Life)
23:18, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+1,982)‎ . . Richard de Bury ‎ (current)
22:52, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+23)‎ . . Richard de Bury ‎ (Bibliophile)
22:51, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+42)‎ . . Richard de Bury ‎ (Bibliophile:  Changed error that stated de Bury founded Durham) 
22:46, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+1)‎ . . Richard de Bury ‎ (Early life)
22:45, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+651)‎ . . Richard de Bury ‎ (Early life:  Corrected two errors in early life) 
22:32, 16 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+306)‎ . . Talk:Richard de Bury ‎ (Religious Life:  new section) 
4) James Logan.  I made major additions to the article on James Logan and created a talk page to discuss my edits.
00:09, 17 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+285)‎ . . Talk:James Logan (statesman) ‎ (Major Additions:  new section) (current) 
00:07, 17 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+5,396)‎ . . James Logan (statesman) ‎ (current)
5) Book Curse.  For fun I have added to our collected knowledge of book curses.
00:35, 17 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+1,391)‎ . . Book curse ‎ (current)
6) Library.  Finally I made major additions to the section discussing the Middle Ages. These major textual additions were made to the section in order to accentuate the importance of the Byzantine Empire during this period and also to add a better organizational structure to the development of libraries during this period.  Normally I would consider edits to one entry one edit but this was a major undertaking.
01:14, 17 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+358)‎ . . Talk:Library ‎ (Middle Ages:  new section) (current) 
01:11, 17 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+6,835)‎ . . Library ‎ (Middle Ages (501 AD – 1400 AD):   major additions were made for organization) (current)
7) Library (again). After reading the two sections that I edited (Classical Period and Middle Ages) I didn't like how they were divided chronologically. So I changed the time periods to reflect the development of libraries better.  Not a major edit at all but I thought the traditional divisions too static.


I think I'm done for now with 21,000 characters not including my talk pages.
8) Justin Winsor.  I was doing my reading for Week 12 on Justin Winsor (first president of the ALA) and then read the Wikipedia article on him and noticed an error that stated he graduated from Harvard.  In fact, like Bill Gates and the Beastie Boys, he left.
17:10, 27 March 2013 (diff | hist. . (+291)‎ . . Justin Winsor ‎ (Background and education) (current)