Sunday, November 7, 2010

San Salvador through the Wikipedia lens

After thinking through many options, I finally decided to contribute to the Wikipedia entry for San Salvador, my home town.  I have lived here most of my life so I felt confident that I would be able to make significant contributions.

I believe that tourism can give an important boost to the economy, so I decided to work on the "Places of Interest" section.  Specifically, I added to the information on theaters, shopping centers, and museums.

To the information on theaters in San Salvador, I added information about Teatro Luis Poma, which is a relatively new and small theater.  It is the theater which I go to the most because, in my opinion, it is were the the best plays are shown, so I thought it was important to add it.  I included a link to the theater´s Web Site where they post upcoming plays and tickets can be bought.  The red box in the screen shot below denotes the text that I added.


In the shopping center section, my most significant contribution was adding links to the shopping centers' Web Pages.  I also added one more center which was not on the list: Las Azaleas, a small but cute strip mall that opened recently.  The red box shows what I added and the green points out the links that I included.


Finally, in the museum subsection I edited the information on the Arts Museum MARTE.  I added information that I believe is more relevant to readers than what was already posted and I made some grammar corrections (it was obvious that whoever did that section was translating from Spanish).  I also added information on the Tin Marin Children's Museum, which I think is one of the nicest museums in the city and which I know very well because my mother used to work there.  I tried adding a picture of the museum (my mother has plenty in her computer), but because this was my first time contributing to Wikipedia, I wouldn't let me upload it.  In the image below, the red box shows the information I added and the purple box the information I edited.  The picture that follows is the one I intended to upload, but couldn't.



Tin Marin Children's Museum






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