I kept an eye on the discussion part of my Wiki post for way too long. I was waiting for someone to respond, but no one ever did. After I posted my contribution to the fantasy basketball page, i made sure to check on it at least 2 -3 times a day. I didn't see any changes. I went over to my cousin's house this weekend and i showed him my post. He made an edit because i had an embarrassing spelling error. I also made some of my own edits. It took me a while to figure out how to add an external link, but then i just looked at another person's post to see how they did it.
My page is dead. No one contributes to it any more. I believe the people who used to contribute, had an argument about posting useless information. At first i was kind of mad that no one had responded to my discussion. Now i am really glad that no one has responded. It makes my life easier, but my first wikipedia experience boring.
I've learned that online communities can be pretty harsh. I didn't learn that from my experience with wiki, but with my classmates experiences. I felt bad for some of my classmates because they tried really hard to contribute to Wiki but they always got booted off. Wikipedia also reminds me of our first experience with Google Docs. A bunch of people getting together to work on something at one time. It surprised me when some of my classmates posts were taken down 1 minute after posting it. I believe Wikipedia is way more or organized than Google Docs. but I feel that they have almost they same function.
I am glad that I finally contributed to wikipedia. I was looking foward to this point of the class for a long time. I plan on messing around on Wikipedia alot more now that i kind of got the hang of it.
Here is the link to my Wikipedia Page : Fantasy Basketball
I added the Communication heading under the League Settings
My Wiki Name is: BorrisdaButhcher
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