Wikipedia Assignment #2

As we all know the 2nd part of the wiki assignment is due this Friday night. But for a student like me who has a so called “Procrastination", I have just started doing this assignment. What a pity.

Although I am still not very sure about what I am supposed to write in this assignment, I decided to read the "Help Out" section first because it is really my first time to try to make changed to Wikipedia and I know almost nothing about how to edit. By reading the articles and watching several videos, I did learn some basics of editing Wikipedia and here I want to write down some editing basics to share with you guys in case some of you may also start late as I do and don't have enough time to read all the tutorials and other stuffs.

-Italics: emphasis, title of book, mention a specific term
 To make italic text, you can just highlight the text with your mouse and then click the I button in the toolbar. And this will add 2 single quote marks at beginning of what you want to be italic and another 2 at the end, i.e.

''Tim Hortons'' -> Tim Hortons

-Bold
 Making bold text is just similar as making italic text, and the only difference is that this time it adds 3 single quote marks ar the beginning and the end of what you want to be bold, i.e.

'''Procrastination''' -> Procrastination
And what if a text is both bold and italic? Well, so it'll be like

''''Blogger'''' -> Blogger

-Headings and subheadings
To improve the structure, we always need to use headings and subheadings, and here is how we create them:
Here is what I typed in

 And here is what I actually got

So when typing like "==XXX==", we end up getting a underlined heading and when typing "===XXX===", we end up getting a bold subheading.

-Links
To insert a link, we just highlight the text and then click the "Link" button, then you'll see

then we just put the URL or the title of another Wikipedia article under the "Target page or URL".

-Citation
The last most useful thing is adding citations. Adding a citation is quite easy actually, the only thing to do is to click on the "Templates' menu and choose what kind of citation you want to add. One thing I have to mention is that if you are adding the first citation to an article, don't forget to put {{Reflist}} or <references/> just under the reference title, which is like ==References==. This will tell wiki where to display your citations.

I guess that is all we need to use to make basic changes. Hope this post will be helpful.

Feb 11-15

Just now I suddenly found I forgot to post new blogs in the last few weeks because of the endless midterms(I know you understand my feeling :(  )

On February 7, we had our first midterm in the lecture hall. Because I was a little bit late that morning, when I rushed into the hall, I saw that almost everyone had already got their test paper and were ready to start. That made me really nervous but luckily the test was not too hard and that calmed me down.
Last Tuesday we got our papers back and I feel so proud of myself for doing well in the first midterm. I remembered that there is a saying- a good beginning makes a good ending. I do hope that this saying is reasonable and my beginning will bring me a satisfying ending.

Another thing that makes me confused is the word "list".  For example, when I type in "menagerie", Dr.Racket will give me a result like (list im1 im2 im3 im4).I don't know under what kind of conditions the result will begin with a word "list". Is it like when I expect to get more than one image or picture I should be expecting to see the word "list" at the beginning of this list as well?