Undecided major with Spanish minor at Linfield College. I am currently using this page for a psychology project.
My group and I are debating writing articles on the following topics:
1.) Dendrophobia: no Wikipedia Article exists
2.) Haptodysphoria: no Wikipedia Article exists
3.) Healthy Multiplicity: mentioned in this article | Hypostatic model of Personality
It looks as if we will be starting our article from scratch! :)
This is an article I have edited: | abnormal psychology Here are my suggestions for the article: | edits
Week 5: I added information to the Fregoli delusion disorder page. Here is the dif: | Fregoli Delusions
This is the link to the page I referenced and listed in the reference section [1]
Wikipedia Psychology-Project Portfolio:
Peer review
I reviewed group 3, the Pica page. Here were my comments: Peer Review: Dif
Communication
Here are the posts I've made on Melissa, who used to be a group members talk page: dif 1 dif 2
Posts on Danica's talk page: dif
Posts on Maleah's talk page: dif
Posts on Polysubstance Dependence's talk page Diff one Diff two
Most of our communication was via Linfield email, for ease of communication and quick response...
My contributions
I added to these pages diff one diff two diff three diff four diff five
My Contributions to Polysubstance Dependence
I wrote and edited the treatment section of the page Treatment dif
After reading feedback, I edited the treatment sections into different sections Section dif
I changed category names so they would make more sense: Heading name difs Heading dif change
In between these edits and the ones below I made many small edits to grammar and structure.
Here are a few edits where I linked to other wiki pages Linking one linking two linking three linking four
I moved around parts of the article to where they would sound and fit better: structure change 1 structure change 2
I added a sub section under my medications section that gave examples of medications: medications dif
Grammar and general flow edits: Edits dif
I added another section titled further resources: further resources dif
I changed names and edited category and sub category heading sizes heading edits
I added a section for causes Causes dif
I added to the psychological section psychological dif
After reading feedback we needed to edit our reference section, I went through and changed EVERY source to have a source name... Here are most of them. 1 2 3 [2] [3] 6 7 8 9 10 I made 8 more edits of this kind.
Once again, I changed the page format : Format change
In between all these edits I made small one word, or one sentence edits.
Reflection
I have never edited or done much of anything on Wikipedia, so, from this project I gained insight on two main things: Wikipedia and Polysubstance Dependence. It was quite interesting learning the ways of Wikipedia, I spent much of my time trying things out in the sandbox and reading How-to-Tutorials. My group and I have successfully mastered Wikipedia. Although we had some struggles, I feel as though we now know our ways around Wikipedia.
I enjoyed this project for the simple fact that I wasn’t writing another term paper- how refreshing. Although, it was a lot of work simply navigating Wikipedia. I sometimes felt as though I was spending more time trying to figure out how to format things on Wikipedia than I was on the actual topic of polysubstance dependence. Information on polysubstance dependence is a little scarce, so it was a bit difficult finding studies that pertained to our article and not simply substance abuse.
My group and I discovered Wikipedia together. Maleah taught us how to insert pictures and I edited our references so they wouldn’t show up more than once on our reference list. We had many instances where one of us would learn how to do something and then share our knowledge with the whole group. I think our group did I really good job of equal effort and everyone put in a lot of hard work.
The largest challenge we faced was when we lost one of our group members, it put a bit of a strain on us, but we all stepped up and took on her portion of the project. It was also difficult to find a time when we all could meet because we are all so busy. Much of our decision making and communication was through email. I think our article is a huge improvement from what it used to be and that is our main success. Overall, I think the project was a good learning experience and I’m proud of the article my group and I produced.