Sunday, May 20, 2007

2nd edit to Bubble Tea article - Wikipedia

My second edit to Wikipedia's Bubble Tea article was in the "Variants" section. I work at a bubble tea shop & noticed that they refer to "rainbow jelly" as a substitute for the traditional tapioca pearls in bubble tea beverages. At the shop I work at we refer to these as "composite" jellies and I noted that in this section. Check out my edit.

3rd & Final PRHS Wikipedia Edit

Whew, so I just finally finished editing my high school's Wikipedia article: Pearl River High School. My last edit is really a series of a lot of edits & additions to the page that was once rather bare. I am pretty impressed with my own work, if I do say so myself.
First of all, I added a larger version of the picture I mentioned in my last post. I also added the address of Pearl River High School. I created the "Believe you can achieve" section, the "Senior Class Traditions" section, and the "Clubs" section while also adding content to the "Alumni events" section and "Awards and Honors" section as well as re-formatting the "Sports" section. There is a lot to know about Pearl River High School and still plenty of room for improvement, but I think I did a lot and hit on the most important points. Check out my final edits here!

Pearl River High School - Wikipedia Edit #2

In my second edit to Wikipedia's Pearl River High School article, I added an aerial view picture of my high school. It didn't really come out as nice as I expected because it is really small - but I uploaded it to Wikipedia & then had to do all of this licensing stuff (which I hope is legal that I took it from google images??). Anyway, you can click on the picture and it takes you to another page that has a larger version of it, so that's cool.
Check out my skills here.
Also, something cool - I just noticed that one of the edits to this page came from a user "harrism84" who I believe I know from my hometown. I think he is the older brother of one of my high school classmates that went to PRHS also and graduated a couple of years before me - they are also from Pearl River & it makes sense for him to have edited this page because he went to Pearl River himself. Hm I wonder if his work was for a class or if he is just that motivated & does Wikipedia editing on his own...
Actually, now that I look closer, he created this page on March 11, 2007 - if you remember, my original plan was to edit the Wiki article for my hometown - Pearl River, NY. But instead I discovered that a new article had been created about my high school which was a lot more in need of attention & I switched!

Victory!!


Just a little update in the middle of all of this Wikipedia business - I am HAPPY to report that the Yankees defeated the New York Mets tonight, thank God, 6-2. The game was the third of a mini-series between the two Empire Sate teams & this win for the Yankees ended the possibility of a sweep for the Mets & also ended the Yanks losing streak. You can check out game highlights, scores, etc. on ESPN.

Wikipedia - Alpha Sigma Alpha final edit

So I decided to do one more thing to the Alpha Sigma Alpha Wikipedia article because the content was really lacking. Hopefully people will continue to edit this article, as there is a lot to know about ASA that is not expressed in the article. But as for me, my edits stopped here...with the addition of an entire new section - aren't you proud?!
I added the "Timeline of Important Events" section to the article, including some major dates & highlighting important events of Alpha Sigma Alpha's history. I think I included the most important ones that really contributed to the development of ASA but there is still much room for improvement - and that's why it is good that Wikipedia is a community forum where anyone can add to and/or edit my changes! =)

Wikipedia - 3rd & Final ASA Edit

Yay I am thrilled with my last edit to the Wikipedia article for Alpha Sigma Alpha. I actually may add another edit if I have time because I am afraid that my edits were not content-oriented enough. Anyway, this time I had the good idea of in the "Current Chapters" section - linking the Delaware listing of my chapter here at UD to the website that our chapter runs here at the University. So I made an external link saying "Delta Iota- University of Delaware, Newark" linked to our webpage which is "http://copland.udel.edu/stu-org/asa/" and now that you have the link, you can check it out Professor Brown!
I think this is a great edit because now anyone that uses Wikipedia to check anything out about Alpha Sigma Alpha can link to Delta Iota chapter at the University of Delaware's page directly from the site! You may even find some pictures of me on there...
But I hope that no one removes that change because I think my friend Rosie that maintains our chapter's website has done a great job & the whole Wikipedia community should be able to share in that! Give credit where credit is due, right?!
Check out my final edit here.

Alpha Sigma Alpha Wikipedia Edit #2

I just made another edit to the Alpha Sigma Alpha Wikipedia article. In the "Creed" section I changed "dominate" to "dominant" for the line about finding "dominant beauty in art, literature, nature, and friedships." Check my edit out here.
It's pretty funny to edit this section because I had to memorize this creed during my new member period in Spring 2005. It's almost like the Pledge of Allegiance now for me - I don't think I will ever forget it, seeing as we recite it at the beginning of every chapter meeting.

Also, I am really frustrated because I still cannot figure out how to change the "Philanthropy" section of the large text box on the right to add our other national philanthropy, the S. June Smith Center. I think it is because the same formatting rules may not apply when editing an Infobox. Anyway, that's fine - I can make other changes, but I am happy to see that someone added an external link at the bottom of the page to the S. June Smith page. At least our affiliation with the organization is noted in some way.