The+Silent+Boy+wiki



It all started with a novel we read last year. The four of us were in a "Topics in World Literature" class that focused on the historical fiction. In class we read a novel entitled "The Silent Boy", by Lois Lowry. We all enjoyed the book and had a great time discussing it, yet we had never read it before or used it in class. The novel deals with a family during the early 1900's who interacts with a boy who the reader can assume has autism or a similar disorder. When we looked at the page for //The Silent Boy// on Wikipedia we noticed that there was a huge lack of content and information. Lois Lowry is known for //The Giver// and //Number the Stars//, and the pages for each of those books was extensive and complete, but //The Silent Boy// was merely a paragraph summary with a wrong title and numerous grammatical errors. We divided into groups to write up the different parts we wanted to add to the Wikipedia page and added them to this wikispace page so that we could see each other's work and make changes without having to discuss. Once we had our wikispaces page complete, we started working on updating the information on Wikipedia. None of us were too familiar with the code used to edit Wikipedia pages so we looked at how the pages for //The Giver// were formatted. We took some of the ideas and formulas used for text boxes and images to format our page to look the same. It took a lot of making changes and then flipping back and forth with preview to figure out what we needed. Formatting was the most difficult part of the project. Now having completed the assignment we feel more comfortable using Wikipedia and are not afraid to work with pages in editing and uploading new information. On a side note we also had a vandal come in and delete some of our progress, but a Wiki-policeman reverted back to our old version and wrote a note on why he did so. Overall this was an empowering experience for us.


 * The Old (Lame) Wikipedia Entry**




 * Our New and Improved Wikipedia Entry**



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