User:Naila 98

Naila Oldman

• 1998

Reggie and Susan are blessed with their lovely child Naila who was born in the lovely country town in the country side with the sheep and cows.

• 2017

Naila is still single looking for any man who will take her.

Career

In 2016, she created a duo with User:Rowan 596 starting the famous "Spirit and Flash" who will go on to become the most iconic duo in history!

Reflection

Outline

Wikipedia has become a growing platform enabling people with the correct, credible sources and knowledge to create pages on particular things, whether it be people, places, or things. However, the creation of pages for the Women of Bletchley Park is especially important because of the lack of both knowledge and credit given to them.

The influence

Thus, online platforms have enabled people the ability to inform 'media people of our existence' , as spreadable digital media has become a way in which people share things about them, as well as their family, friends and celebrities. The ability to share online has also meant that people are more willing to share information to other people, including complete strangers. However, it has not always been this way, as back in 2007 only 13% of people in the United States said they would call themselves 'creators' of user-generated content (Jenkins, Ford and Green. 2013), which has since changed through people's comfortability with social media. Personally, I believe that user-generated content is of much more popularity amongst people of a vast amount of ages now because people have now essentially grown up and around the platforms. This is all of importance because it reveals how social media and platforms, like Wikipedia, allow the sharing of knowledge both personal and already public knowledge - but allows people to understand things in new and unconventional ways than just in a textbook, article or book.

International Women's Day Edit-A-Thon

The understanding of Bletchley Park

Being able to create pages on some of the women of Bletchley Park has shown to me why it is of such importance to be involved with the creation of such pages. As students we do not necessarily think of the importance of knowing who and what done things in the past, but delving deep into things around Bletchley Park has enabled me to understand how important the women were, just as much as the men. In addition to this, creating and finishing such pages on International Women's Day makes it of even more importance to me, by being able to be a small part of somewhat history. Even though Wikipedia can cause issues because of 'originality' and 'changing notions of authorship' . It is important, in regards to talking about the women of Bletchley Park we use credible sources as well and stick to the history. Many of the women were left out of pages to do with Bletchley Park, but it is import to recognise each individual no matter how big or small their part was, regardless if they are dead or alive. As many did not even state about their involvement, even after their deaths, showing how much of an asset they were to this country, but yet we do not even know how valuable their were.

The creation

Women like Alison Robins and Rosemary Brown Stanton are just a small amount of the women, who done incredible things for this country back in the Second World War. Even today in the 21st Century, it is evident how much women are left out of history. Through research, it has been found that less women edit posts on Wikipedia, and when it is anonymous it is presumed it is male because of the authoritative nature of the post . Not only does this research outline why so little women edit online, it also outlines why so many women do not want to be in a male-dominated sphere, where they fear their research and articles being disparaged. It is important for us as students to create posts for women because it enables the us as women to understand how important we both were and still are to our own history. As many state that their is not even an issue within Wikipedia, as it is a choice as well as not being of many women's interests to edit Wikipedia. However, as a project this has essentially been disproven because we simply want to help outline people's history where it has not previously been acknowledged. This is why I focused on both Alison and Rosemary, because personally, I liked reflecting on their work and being able to understand in greater knowledge exactly what they did to at Bletchley Park, and how they continued to live the rest of their lives.