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 * 1) The [|Titanic] has been edited over 4000 times throughout its existence. The first edit was on October 12, 2001 and was considered a major edit and the most recent edit was done on October 18, 2010 and was considered a minor edit. The highest number of edits was done by Wikipedia user //Old Moonraker// who has edited the page 186 times who, by coincidence, was the last person to edit the page. Through investigation, it seems that there were no stagnate periods of inactivity with editing.
 * 2) The first edit of the Titanic Wikipedia page wasn't scaffolded nearly as much as a traditional Wikipedia page would be. There were no subsections in the article, nor were there pictures, links or many resources used. In fact, the only resource listed is currently unavailable/unknown. It wasn't until November 15, 2003 when the page actually began to resemble a traditional Wikipedia page but the number of external links remained at a staggering low amount of nine. On May 3, 2004 Wikipedia user //Kevin Staff// began to create a visual representation of the Titanic by adding several primary/historical photographs. By June 2006 a reference chart had been added on the right side of the Wikipedia page including the ships builder, captain, size, etc. Additionally, numerous pictures had been changed as well as graph displaying how the ship was affected by the iceberg. Additionally, at this point the references have increased drastically as well as external links.
 * 3) The writing, for the most part, seemed on par with what a secondary source should resemble. The only issues I saw were missuses of some features of grammar, including commas and contractions. I did find several examples of misspellings including this sentence "Approximately 6,000 artefacts have been removed from the wreck. Many of these were put on display at the [|National Maritime Museum] in [|Greenwich], England, and later as part of a travelling museum exhibit.[|[][|95][|]]" In terms of the content I feel that the information is factual based on my knowledge of the Titanic. There seemed to be
 * 4) The discussion portion was extremely content based without many personal opinions about the topics. The discussion portion includes seven archives of discussion information with 15 content areas.The subheadings were all regarding the ship itself, including the engineering as well as myths regarding the sinking of the Titanic. Additionally, the contributors were also interested in developing methods to ensure that the headings in the article were grammatically correct and were often times interested int he ability for the article to be aesthetically pleasing for the readers.
 * 5) The most active contributor is Wikipedia user //Rumiton// who updated the page on October 9, 2010. //Rumiton// is from Australia and is interested in grammar and linguistics. nothing on his Wikipedia page included information regarding his interest in the Titanic or ships. Wikipedia user //Slowjog// also updated the Titanic page on October 9, 2010. He has no information regarding his personal life but the edits he has made on the Titanic page were scholarly and added to the core of the page itself.