Wikipedia revision. Whether you’re a fan of Wikipedia, going on endless search-after-searches through tabbed browsing (like I do) or skeptical of its ability to be edited and updated without sources cited – today we’re all Wikipedia writers. Pretend you’re rewriting or adding onto your condition’s page – what sentence or paragraph should be included (in your opinion) on your the page (or the “Health” page)? Wikipedia is often the first source that people see when they look up conditions. Keeping it honest is important. Does your condition’s page have a lot of resources linked in the footnotes or not? Is there an accompanying picture on its page or not? How would you like to see this hugely clicked-on page improved?
Has Wikipedia forgotten about your condition? Write a few facts and “submit.”
If you see something on the current Wikipedia page that you’d like to change – go for it. Take out a sentence you find particularly vague or stigmatizing or just plain untrue in your experience. If you want to add a picture to the page to capture an aspect of the condition that’s being missed – you can do that in your post today as well. Have fun with the prompt!
How did you fancy-up your Wikipedia page?
I added what many patients with type 2 that I encounter would say – that self-monitoring of blood glucose is important no matter what regimen – http://talesofrachel.com/2011/04/11/hawmc-day-11-wikipedia/
My Wiki page on Sjogren’s syndrome was actually very well written. Dang. I had to improvise:n http://reasonablywell-julia.blogspot.com/
http://wecaralot.blogspot.com/2011/04/busy-with-phone-calls.html Day 11 is a day off for me 🙂 I know that I’m going to kick myself for doing this so soon!!
http://joanna-herlifeinanutshell.blogspot.com/2011/04/wikipedia-revision-hawmc-day-11.html The wiki page for NDPH is alright, seeing as how there isn’t much known about NDPH in general. I added a few facts 🙂
HAWMC Day 11 – Wikipedia http://talesofswaging.blogspot.com/2011/04/hawmc-day-11-wikipedia.html
a fun wiki revision: http://themsmuse.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-day-11-wikipedia-revised.html
I thought the entry on Type 1 Diabetes was pretty good, but a friend’s comment to my blog has me rethinking it now… Anyway:nnhttp://sweetlyvoiced.blogspot.com/2011/04/wikid-cool.html
I almost used my pass card but sucked it up and wrote this instead: http://cupsquietlybeingfilled.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/hawmc-day-11-wikipedia-is-totally-a-source/
Wow! I didn’t know that so many people were having as much of a problem as I was. Here is my post. Hopefully we will have an easier challenge tomorrow.nhttp://thepinkteeshirt.blogspot.com/2011/04/hawmc-challenge-wikipedia-revision.html
I forgot to add the link to mine earlier: http://chronicmigrainewarrior.blogspot.com/2011/04/hawmc-prompt-11-wikipedia-page.html
There are two parts to my wikipedia redux: a tongue in cheek satire (it was one of those days) and a more serious addition to a wikipedia entry: http://phylor.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/wikipedia-redux-from-tmj-trigeminal-neuralgia-to-dog-diseases-cherbuism-and-a-list-of-star-trek-races/n
Here’s my post: http://somebodyhealme.dianalee.net/2011/04/wego-health-activist-prompt-11.html
Had a hard time with this one…nnhttp://community.wegohealth.com/profiles/blogs/wego-challenge-day-11n