Friday, March 23, 2012

Wikipedia Article: Give you warm in winter


Zhou,F.(2012).Instant-boiled mutton,Retrieved on January 25,2008.                  http://www.flickr.com/photos/77891688@N04/6862676564/in/photostream/
     
     
            Seeing this steaming hot hot-pot, do you feel your whole body is warm now? And you may be hungry as well. But before having it, I want to introduce what it really is. Click HERE to see the whole information.
     Edit a Wikipedia article? When I heard this week’s assignment, I felt excited but also nervous. Because Wikipedia is a worldwide online encyclopedia and it seems to be very academic. I’m excited that millions of people around world may be watching my edition. However, I’m also afraid that I cannot make them clearly understood what they want to know.
Zhou,F.(2012). my wiki edition, Retrieved on March 23,2012


      I chose a stub called ‘Instant-boiled mutton’ which is a very famous hot-pot dish in China and people have it mostly during winter. Can you imagine? When you go back home in a hurry with heavy wind and chilly weather, you open the door and seeing a steaming hot instant-boiled mutton is waiting for you and give you warm to help you against the cold. That is so enjoyable and that’s why I chose to edit this one. At the beginning, I found this stub contains very few information, only a picture and a section. So I decided to add more and I added three sections (Introduction, History and Healthy effect). It is a little hard to find scientific articles related to this topic because this is not a worldwide known stuff and may be scientists haven’t found its researchable use. But I found a book ultimately called ‘Food in China’ which contains introduction of instant-boiled mutton. And I also obtained useful information and delicious pictures from some web pages. The History part is my favorite part, and actually it is also my first time learning the history of instant-boiled mutton. I’m surprised it has a long history and an interesting story. Eventually, a warm Wikipedia article editing finished.
     What’s more? The ‘Good article criteria’ also helps me a lot. A good article should be clear and concise, therefore, when I searched information online, I always compared each materials and tried to summary and organize so that the information that I added to can be more accurate and do not mislead people who read it.I read my friend, Wenxin Li's  Wikipedia article. She introduces a popular movie star,Stephen Chow in Hong Kong, China. Have a look and find interesting stuff in it.

2 comments:

  1. This picture looks like the Hot Pot right? It is very delicious for sure. And the Wikipedia of Instant-boiled mutton is completed by your edition. Meanwhile, this blog backgroud is very beautiful. I really love it.

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  2. Hot pot! It is my favorite! When I put foods in it, the mutton is always the first. Choosing this stub for wikipedia should be extremely fun and enjoyable. Thanks for sharing the instant-boiled mutton with us. Maybe after the final, we can go to have hotpot together.

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