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Contribute to Wikipedia using Open Access Media

This challenge is for the uninitiated Librarian-cum-Wikipedian.
You'll learn how to edit and then take the challenge of improving one article from our trove of Open Access Content.
You'll do this by taking following some interactive videos, and then editing Wikipedia.
The easiest way to tangibly contribute to Open Access Week.

P Time it should take to complete:
2 hrs

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Wikipedia Forensics

It's not just about reading the first page you see.

OBSERVE

http://youtu.be/_VG7TnxrlEA

DO

Using version history, find on which day the Page for Gangnam Style was created, and how many days was it after the video launched? Does this length of time surprise you?

Find out what links to Gangnam Style. Which article is most surprisingly linked to Gangnam Style?

Task Discussion

Wayne said:

The Gangname Style page was created on 30 July 2012.

The Wikepedia page was created 15 days later, way longer than I would have guessed.

The most surprising article to me that links to Gangnam Style is PostgreSQL.

on April 15, 2014, 3:24 p.m.
richardba said:

Fifteen days, omg

And it is odd to see Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class, Australian Recording Industry Association, Afrojack and Aircraft carrier style linking to Gagnam Style

on Feb. 16, 2013, 12:43 p.m.
phette23 said:

The Berklee College of Music link surprsed me, PSY is an alum apparently.

on Dec. 19, 2012, 12:28 a.m.
Radka said:

2 weeks doesnt suprised me at all, robot users might (User talk:Angelo.romano).

on Oct. 24, 2012, 4:12 p.m.
Lauren Bradley said:

I think the most interesting pages it links from is the Boston University and Berklee College of Music...I didn't know he was educated in the U.S.

on Oct. 24, 2012, 3:15 p.m.
Kathleen Johnson said:

Using version history, find on which day the Page for Gagnam Style was created,

13:16, 30 July 2012‎

and how many days was it after the video launched?

The song was released on July 15, 2012, as the lead single of his sixth studio album PSY 6 (Six Rules), Part 1. On July 15, 2012, the music video for "Gangnam Style" was uploaded onto YouTube and received about 500,000 views on its first day.^[46]

Does this length of time surprise you?

Yes, a bit. The initial poster clearly knows how to get around in Wikipedia OR Wikipedia is so intuitive that the searcher, not having found it, created it.

Find out what links to Gangnam Style. Which article is most surprisingly links to Gagngam Style?

“Social Impact of YouTube” under the “Controversies over video rankings”

"Gangnam Style" by Psy, which has over 530 million views

This is all very useful info to know.

on Oct. 23, 2012, 6:12 p.m.

Kathleen Johnson said:

PS: As a librarian I do love this Gangnam Remix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F11i1PRUXw0

on Oct. 23, 2012, 6:30 p.m. in reply to Kathleen Johnson

Max said:

We always knew that one of the features of libraries was that it'd make a good location for filming parodies. Right?

on Oct. 24, 2012, 12:27 p.m. in reply to Kathleen Johnson
Desmond Wolf said:

So http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Chmerkovskiy links to Gangnam style. Apparently this is a celebrity dancer on Dancing with the Stars, who once danced with the stars to Gangnam Style. That seems particularly unencyclopedic to me. But perhaps that's not surprising.

on Oct. 22, 2012, 7:26 p.m.