As part of our English 3080 course, we have to write an article and publish it into Wikipedia, an online Encyclopedia that can be edited by any reader. In the beginning it seemed as though finding a topic was going to be the hardest task. Every single topic imaginable has been talked about or posted on Wikipedia. There are also stubs, but most are on topics that are extremely hard or nearly impossible to write a lot about. I was actually able to find a topic of interest in order to write an article on. Little did I know that the hard part would be the actual posting of the article onto Wikipedia and then making it look like it is a credible article that belongs on an online Encyclopedia. Unfortunately, I think I lost my article somewhere on Wikipedia. It was posted but I cannot find the link to it. Seems as though I will have to try re-posting it on there.
I chose to write about a book that has been published by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Wikipedia has a few stubs on some of their publications, however it did not have a stub or a full article on one of their recently most used books, “What Does The Bible Really Teach?”. As a Jehovah’s Witness myself I thought it would be of great use to write about the uses of the book and its content. That way, anyone who is interested can just pop the name of the book into the Search and read up on it. This hopefully will spark some interest on the readers part. I still have some work to do with the article, such as providing citations, however I am waiting on the opinion of my fellow classmates. We are all critiquing each others work, which can give each person a new insight into their article. I am looking forward to reading up on their opinion’s on how I can make my article more useful.
