Monday, March 4, 2019

wikiHow to Make a No-Added-Sugar, No-Bake Berry Pie

The experience of communicating the How to Make a NoAddedSugar, NoBake Berry Pie wiki came from multiple sources.  The main source of information used in creating this wiki was personal experience.  Cutting sugar out of a diet can be difficult when a sweet tooth is persistent.  The benefits of cutting sugar are many.  Cutting sugar can cause better sleep patterns, weight loss, clearer skin, increase in energy, and a happier mood.  The three recipes created for this wiki taste sweet yet have zero added sugars.  This is perfect for anyone trying to fit into a dress or outfit in a compromised amount of time.  Learning about health and diet in school and from personal trainers gave all the knowledge necessary for this project.  Once someone tries cutting sugar, they will see that it is easier than expected with these zero added sugar desserts that still satisfy cravings.  Every time someone makes these recipes, they will learn what to add or take away so it suits their taste.  There are always substitutes in case a person does not like a certain ingredient which is listed in the “Tips” section of the wiki.  Personal experience is the source of all of the information in this wiki.  Creating the photos for this wiki is also credited to personal experience.  The general information about wiki layout was taken from looking at multiple wikis.  Checking out multiple published wikis led to a general knowledge as to how to create a wiki that would also be published.  When creating the photos for this project, each recipe was made with the help of a friend so that the photos could be taken more easily.  Managing this project was kind of difficult since a friend’s younger siblings wanted to help but they were too young.  The ease with this project came with already having made these desserts before so there were no surprises.  Learning how to edit those photos was a new experience.  Photoshop is a very useful tool when creating a better highlighted and overall edited photo.  Photoshop allows people to see their original photo versus their new edited one to see if they overdid the editing.  Keeping all of these photos in a folder on a flashdrive made transporting and working on these photos in different locations simple.  After figuring out exactly how the photos should look, they were to be coded into the wiki.  Coding was a new, confusing experience.  Pasting the No Bake Cookie code into a word document and changing things to fit the wiki created for this project was like playing operation.  Every single space, and character changed something.  It felt like dodging lasers trying to get the code just right.  Each time an image was to be put in a spot, exactly that image name had to be typed correctly in the right spot.  Once the code was pasted into wikiHow and the preview was shown, something was clearly not right.  The wiki page created had each photo repeated when it should not have been.  This meant going back into the code and figuring out where it all went wrong.  Somehow each image was placed in there twice so deleting one of the image codes solved this problem quickly.  There was also an issue in trying to get rid of the spaces and bullet points in this wiki preview.  The only way to solve this was to go back and compare the new coded wiki to the original.  Come to find out, extra spaces and pound symbols threw the whole page off.  After correcting those mistakes, the wiki looked just as planned.  Hitting publish was a nerve racking moment but not as bad as the intense sweating that started when receiving an email from the wikiHow admins.  Anna, the admin, said that she had to cut two of the three recipes out and was only going to publish the page with one recipe.  Anna emailed an option to cut things out and when allowing her permission to do so, she published the wiki with the no-bake berry pie recipe and photos.  This was frustrating because of how much time was spent cooking and coding.  All of the time spent on this project to only have one third of the project posted seemed like a huge waste but after finding that some wikis do not get posted at all, it no longer seemed so bad.  When looking over the published wiki, it was clear that breaking the original wiki down was the best call for clarity reasons.


There is no second reference for this wiki page as the information came from personal experience.

All photos were created by this wiki’s author.

https://www.wikihow.com/User:Lexi-McTigue





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