Walk+Two+Moons+Discussion

Wikipedia: Walk Two Moons 1. This page was first modified on December 2nd, 2003 at 6:29 by DavidA. It was most recently modified with a section edit on November 2nd, 2010 at 8:01. In between, there have been about 500 revisions. Activity has been relatively consistent over the last seven years; not more than a few months pass between revisions. “ClueBot” has edited the page most frequently, with 17 contributions. “Joyous” is second with 12 posts. 2. The original page was very brief, only four sentences. It has a short summary and one line giving background information. Since its conception, many edits have been made. The one I saw the most was plot information being added. There were also more references cited, changing of the category of this book, grammatical edits, reverting of “possible vandalism,” external links added, categories such as “theme” added, and much more. The current page has three sections: plot, theme, and references. It has also had a sidebar added listing the genre, author, publication date, etc. Genre was actually debated and changed from a “1994 book” to “children’s literature.” It is now classified as “Young-adult fiction.” 3. I was surprised at how short and lacking in detail this page is, especially considering the number of edits. The writing style isn’t bad and the facts seem to be in order, but I don’t think it does justice to this book. The “themes” section is especially meager; the contributors don’t even address the theme of not judging someone until you understand their situation—this was where the book’s title comes from (“don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins”), so I was shocked that no one mentioned it! 4. Unfortunately, there is not much discussion around the article. There is one post concerning a possible fair use violation from the image on the webpage. There are two other links to pages where novels and children’s literature are discussed more in-depth. The other post is, strangely, an inaccurate description of the Harry Potter series. 5. The most active contributors are “ClueBot” and “Joyous.” ClueBot is a bot operated by Cobi. ClueBot is used to make “repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually.” Cobi is a verified open proxy checker. “Joyous” is a user who registered in 2004 due to an obsession with fixing GUM errors. She also has created 80 new articles.