Okay so I know I had trouble getting started on the wikipedia experiment. I choose a pregnancy page and I think it must have been authorised as I could not find the elusive edit button anywhere. After reading the discussion board and seeing that a number of people had success by making changes to the page of their hometown I decided changes to pregnancy where a little ambitious and I should try collaborating on the page of my own hometown, which is Muswellbrook, New South Wales. I noticed right away that there was no tourism information on this page (and most towns in the surrounding area included the same) so I added some information on local attractions. It only took a day and a Good Samaritan reverted to the earlier version leaving me with the comment “sorry this is not a travel page, try wikitravel”. I Muswellbrook is on somebody's watch list. I have decided not to dispute the change/comment as I no longer live in the town and the page is obviously being regularly moderated. I had a lot of fun doing this experiment and no longer find wikis daunting. I may even become a wikipedian in the future – now that I know what I am capable of J
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