My first editing experience on Wiki

Shivanasamudram is a beautiful spot near Bangalore where there are 2 grand waterfalls - Gaganachukki and Barachukki. This was being discussed in Bangalore Metblogs in the post titled "Places to visit near Bangalore" written by Amit.

After reading the comments and various internet resources, I realised that everybody was wrong about Shivanasamudram. That the waterfalls located near the Hydel Power Project was the only one and the western and eastern branches of the waterfalls were identified as Gaganachukki and Barachukki. Fact is Gaganachukki and Barachukki falls are separated by a 1 km distance. Even Wiki did not mention it right.

Somewhere information had to be corrected. And therefore I decided to see where can information be updated. Of all information sources, Wiki was the only one where one could edit the content. So, I edited the document that talked about Shivanasamudram.

It was quite easy. One has to intelligently note the formatting and take advantage of linking URLs within the content. The format is intelligible to the Wiki's content parser. If you enclose content within [[]] parenthesis, then it is treated as a link and if you click on it, then you launch a new Wiki search for that keyword. And that is absolutely cool. Similarly with images. It is a good idea to use Wiki Commons and upload your images to Wiki. Ofcourse, you need to register to the service. But it is worth it. Once registered, you can upload snaps or other media content to Wiki and link it up on your Wiki post. The Wiki Help is also very well written so that even a person with little understanding of English can manage to follow the instructions.

The result of the above is what you see when you search for Shivanasamudram on Wikipedia.

Quite neat and simple. Eh?