W12. Editing articles - Gyongmin Moon, 문경민

Although Wikipedia introduces itself to be an open and free content that anyone can edit, it doesn't mean that it can be formed whatever the editors like it to be. It has a certain rule for how an article should look like to get a high classification of the article's quality on assessments. But, even though those rules are clearly written and suggested to all the Wikipedians, it is hard to match up all the points that Wikipedia requests to an article. Consequently, a relatively high number of articles are classified as stubs or start-level, which is the first and the second-lowest article quality rank in Wikipedia. But this doesn't mean that achieving the higher level is impossible. After all, Wikipedia is a place where you work with everyone else in the world. Help others on what you are good at, and receive help from others on what they are good at. By keeping this up, there are no articles bad enough to remain at the bottom level forever.

Before this week, I thought that I became quite experienced in editing Wikipedia, but I realized that there is still a long way to go to make a good article. I found out many mistakes that I've made when learning about article writing regulations in Wikipedia even in the most basic sections.

Considering this, even though I'm taking a college lecture on Wikipedia, I'm still making many mistakes. I wonder that how would people that learned Wikipedia by themselves have come to be experienced Wikipedians as they are now. Is it just time that made them so experienced? Or is there someplace where they could learn about Wikipedia?

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  1. Juhee ChaJune 4, 2020 at 10:26 PM

    At first, editing Wikipedia articles was learned through related lectures. However, the opportunity I was able to get to know more about Wikipedia and editing in substance was to experience it firsthand and receive feedback. Wikipedia's characteristic is collective intelligence, but many people can work together to supplement their articles and give feedback to other people's articles. In fact, cooperation helped a lot, and it was the most successful opportunity for me to grow.

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