I’ve been trying to contribute to Wikipedia more often these days, particularly in the sciences since I’m supposed to be knowledgeable in that field. Today, when I was writing a paper on electronic voting systems for a humanities class (PS 12), I stumbled upon a paper about a e-voting system that used N-Version Programming (NVP). Now, what is NVP? You ask. That’s a good question. I went over to Wikipedia to learn about it, but Wikipedia didn’t have an article on N-Version Programming! No way!
Well, I found out more about NVP through reading a few papers and decided to contribute back to Wikipedia by creating the article: N-Version Programming. That’s right, everything on that page right now should be my work (check the history to see if other people have modified it). It took me over about an hour to write the article and to reference the heck out of it. But overall, I’m glad I finally created an article in Wikipedia.
Most of the time, however, I’m making small edits here and there. You can view my list of contributions here.
Edit: Maybe in my paper, I should cite the wikipedia article and see if the grader thinks I’m plagiarizing off of the article :).
One Comment
Yay, Wikipedia contributions! I haven’t created any articles yet, but I correct spelling/punctuation/formatting on almost every article I read, revert vandalism, and add people to my school’s articles too. I also seriously restructured the MIT template a few months ago. We should be Wikipedia friends
I’m int3gr4te!