Wikipedia Experience Follow Up

So about a week ago I blogged about a Wikipedia assignment that's part of the same class that requires me to do this blog.  So we posted our suggestions to the Talk page on the Skype article and we ended up getting feedback a couple of days later.

Here's what the guy said:

"Hi KMobley, you are welcome to expand this article. However, consider the following:
The phrase "beyond its potential frivolous use" is from a subjective point of view. Make sure you write in a neutral style.  I like th exisiting paragraph on educational use, because it is very easy to understand. (e.g.: "Students in different parts of the world are paired off, each is a native speaker of the language that the other wishes to learn. In conversations over Skype they alternate between the two languages"). Your rephrasing might make the paired learning aspect harder to understand.The second paragraph is written like an advertisement. Make sure you avoid ad-style writing"

My team member and myself thought it was hilarious.  These Wiki people really take this stuff seriously!!   And it wasn't just us.  We were discussing our Wiki results with other classmates and they had similar experiences.  They were reading comments that Wiki people had made on other suggestions and they were quite harsh.  People would actually argue on the Talk page.  Whatever happened to the Be Polite guidelines on Wikipedia. Anyway, the feedback that we received seemed to not want us to make any changes to the original article.  Of course we did it anyway (we have to for the course), but we did make a few changes based on his suggestions.  I wouldn't be surprised to see if our additions have been removed.  Let's pause for a second while I check...  Amazing!!!  It's still there!  I'll give it a week.

By the way, all those spelling errors in that quote are all his.

And yes, I refer to the Wikipedia contributors as Wiki people.  It's funny and on point.  LOL

Another E-Learning experience complete.  Until next time...