Wikipedia Exercise

I looked up Boise, Idaho on Wikipedia.

Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page or search for “Wikipedia Main Page.”

1. Search for your topic on Wikipedia.

2. Find and click on the “View history” tab: 

3.Go to "oldest."   It looks like this on your page:

(cur) = difference from current version, (prev) = difference from preceding version, m = minor edit, → = section edit, ← = automatic edit summary

(newest | oldest) View (newer 50 | older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)

An IP address is a set of numbers such as 210.49.193.178 or 66.108.247.197. 

4. Check out five different contributors on that article.  What can you find out about them?

User Name or IP Address	What else does this tell about this author?	Can you tell is the author is an expert?
1.WhisperToMe	WhisperToMe is a resident of Houston, Texas. He's a computer whiz who started high school in August 2003 and graduated in May 2007. He speaks English, very little Spanish, and very little French. He has one or more cats and eats chili!  He is an administrator on Wikipedia.  (that means he doesn’t work for them, but has been approved to have certain rights by a whole bunch of people who edit on Wikipedia.	No.  What does he know about Boise?
2. 205.188.209.133	It shows what he or she has edited, but doesn’t tell anything about who this person is.	No!

3. Sethant	·       a resident of Klamath Falls, Oregon and assistant professor of chemistry at Oregon Institute of Technology (since 16 September 2011). ·       a genuine living, breathing human being (since 26 November 1982)	No, though he does live closer to Boise than many of the others who have edited that article.