Wikipedia Evaluation

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Credibility[1]

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  • credibility is used as resource for information with "objective and subjective components"
  • credibility has to have "trustworthiness and expertise"
  • with journalistic credibility, the people who work in this have to be honest with their credibility being clear, accurate and trustworthy
  • in academic credibility, they have credibility of "competence, character, and caring"
    • competence = knowledge
    • character = "goodness" (honesty, trustworthiness)
    • caring = "showing interest in students welfare or issues"
  • if the teacher shows credibility to the information they're teaching to their students, it will stick more with the student
  • in scientific credibility, it is usually seen as credibility to a specific research or scientist

How Wikipedia is hostile to women[2]

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  • User lightbreather being harassed by graphic pictures
  • Lightbreather joins project on how women don't have Wikipedia accounts
  • Men asking for proof on "gender gap" on wiki between men and women
  • In 2015, project introduced my lightbreather for women editors to support each other
  • Wiki committee denied taking lightbreathers case about the pronographic picture
    • Result: lightbreather banned from wiki
  • When wiki was created, it was on "culture of thoughtful, diplomatic honesty” and a “neutral point of view”
  • Arbcom mostly men = "biased decision making"
  • Women in wiki are less than 10% (study in 2011)
  • Wikimedia foundation wanted 25% of women editors on wiki
  • Sarah Stierch = founder of teahouse & tried to get more women editors on wiki; let go in 2014 due to editing while being oaid
  • Pages of movies have "sex scenes" that concludes as rape = one reason why women don't edit on wiki
  • "gender-neutral pseudonyms" = avoidment of harassment

Conflict of Interest

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Article Evaluation

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Nicaragua[3]

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San Francisco Giants[4]

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Work Cited

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Albert Williams[5]

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Baseball Career

1980:

On May 7th, 1980, Albert Williams was called up to the Majors to make his debut against the Baltimore Orioles as a starter for 3 innings. In this game, he allowed 7 hits (making one of them a home run and having all four runs as earned) no walks, and struck out 2 batters. [6]

On September 9th, Williams started the game against the Milwaukee Brewers and finished it with having 6 hits of him: both runs as earned, 1 one strikeout, no homers allowed and allowing only 2 walks. Williams earned himself an ERA of 3.81 this game and won with the score of 15-2.

As a rookie in the Majors with the Twins, Williams pitched 18 games with a record of 6 wins and 2 lost and an ERA of 3.51. Out of the 18 games, 9 of them were as a starter and 3 of them were complete games. He pitched 77 innings, allowing 73 hits (9 of them being home runs). Williams struck out 35 batters and walked 30, having 33 runs scored on him. [7]

  1. ^ "Credibility". Wikipedia. 2017-04-24.
  2. ^ Paling, Emma. "Wikipedia's Hostility to Women". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
  3. ^ "Nicaragua". Wikipedia. 2017-04-27.
  4. ^ "San Francisco Giants". Wikipedia. 2017-04-18.
  5. ^ "Albert Williams (baseball)". Wikipedia. 2017-02-04.
  6. ^ "Albert Williams 1980 Pitching Gamelogs | Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  7. ^ "Albert Williams". baseball-players.pointafter.com. Retrieved 2017-05-04.