Sunday, February 12, 2012

Adding Content to Wikipedia

My class assignment was to create/add content to my school's Wikipedia site. Since I am not a teacher, I updated a small section of the pages to the high school I graduated from (Lansing Everett) as well as the Michigan State University Wikipedia page.

For the Lansing Everett site I added information in the Athletics section that relates to both Earvin "Magic" Johnson, and Goran Sutton (using italics). Reason why? In addition to following similar basketball history at Everett and MSU (each won a Michigan High School Boy's Basketball championship, and each played in an NCAAA championship game), I have a personal connection to these players. My brother-in-law tutored Earvin Johnson while he was at Everett, and my son (Benjamin) tutored Goran while he was at Everett. You would think the MSU Athletics department would set me up with some tickets! :-)

Everett Wikipedia page: Lansing Everett

For MSU's page, I updated Tom Izzo's basketball record and winning percentage ("...as of February 2012).

MSU Wikipedia page: MSU Basketball

"Before" and "After" screen shots are listed below.



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