Criterion E: Evaluation.

Criterion E: Evaluation

For this project we were supposed to work in pairs in order to find an error on Wikipedia. My partner was Nandy. We worked together and we found an article on Wikipedia that was specifically wrong. The article that we had found was on our school, International School of Ulaanbaatar. My own design specifications were:
o Edit the text properly
o Find reliable sources
o Do everything as supposed to such as the MLA citations that were required for this criterion. As from what I can see, I completed all of my specifications. I have edited the text on Wikipedia while giving out proper and reliable sources. I cited all of them in the MLA format also.
Nandy who was my partner, looked at my design specifications and she said that they're reasonable and good. =)

For criterion A, we were supposed to answer some questions which were mainly about Wikis, Wikipedia, and cites like this. The main questions were the usage of it, reliability etc. As for my investigation, I answered all of the questions by searching for information on the internet. It was pretty interesting because we found out a lot of new useful information and found out a lot of new things also. For this project we were separated into pairs and my partner was Nandy.As for the steps, firstly we thought of a few main themes or topic/ideas that we are familiar with and that are most likely to be wrong on Wikipedia. Our list was mainly related to Mongolia, Bosnia and things that we are interested in. For the second step, we searched for these articles on Wikipedia and read them all in order to find an error. Only one of them had an error and it was the International School of Ulaanbaatar article. The article states that in ISU we are offered an U.S. curriculum but not anymore. It has been changed to the IB. Therefore the article that I edited was this one. It was fairly easy because I am familiar with the OSI and all of the information there is on the page was very broad and simple so it was easy for me to spot the errors. I was pretty satisfied with my investigation because I answered all of the questions that we were asked and I fulfilled the criteria quite well.

For criterion B we were supposed to find that specific inaccuracy on Wikipedia which we were supposed to edit on our blogs. After this we were to cite the sources that we found the basic information on in MLA format. Afterwards, we were to write down a list of our specifications which we are going to follow in order to make our project good. This criterion I did fairly well, but the only wrong thing was the fact that I did not post my criterion on my blog on time but saved it as a draft only. That was the only ‘disappointment’ for me.

And last, our criterion D which is Create. For this part we simply went to Wikipedia, logged on and edited the article on Wikipedia that we had chosen. Today, I checked the article and there was no change on the text that I have written last time. I am happy. The main reason for no one changing the article is because I gave a reliable source that supported my argument.

As for the impacts on the society it was very important from me doing this. For example if a student was looking on the ISU article and they saw a mistake such as the one on the program offered in ISU that I have edited, that would have changed their future. If that student saw that ISU is based upon a U.S. curriculum, they would be getting wrong information because the curriculum these days is the IB which is the only program being offered at ISU now.