Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Wikipedia Assignment #2: Vikings

1. 6,852 words

2. Search Term: Vikings, Article Title: Viking

3. Disambigutation: History, Organizations, Ships, Aerospace, Military, Film/Music and Sports

4. Discussion had suggestions to make the article better. It also had questions, and some people gave some extra intresting topics about the vikings not on the article.

5. Changes: 5063, 1st change date:02/06/2002, Last change date:10/12/2008

6. External links: 6

7. References: 5

8. No topic for further reading

This article discused the origin of the term "viking". It also discusses some of the famous viking through history and how they had their influence on the colonization of Europe as well as other territories, including a temporary stay in New Foundland, Canada. This article seems pretty dry and didn't have much for interesting facts. The only real intresting fact had to do with the viking wearing horned helmets, which the article states would actually make it cumbersome to wear during battle, so the viking did not actually wear horned helmets. I wouldn't recommend this article because if you read our assignments you'll get most of the important information from there and not the article.

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