W.13 Categorization / Dayoung Ryu, 류다영




Categorization


Users edit articles in Wikipedia, but Wikipedia has more features, not only simple modifications but more. For example, discussion (talk) tabs, user messages, user talk pages, sandbox features, drafts articles, document frames, media insertions... and Wikipedia also provides users with beta services such as multilingual translation. However, Wikipedia users do not know how to use these services.

Wikipedia is a big culture. Many people are in Wikipedia culture. Wikipedia is used and edited by millions of people. So there must be some rules. Rules for document format, rules for discussion, rules for grammar, etc. If you do not keep the rules, Wikipedia will be easily disappeared. To protect Wikipedia culture, users must observe the rules, but as the Wikipedia culture is wide, the rules become more and more, and users eventually do not know about the rules. 
The first person to use Wikipedia doesn't know how to edit it, like I did once.

For these users, Wikipedia began to categorize help document. User pages, article pages, discussion pages, images, templates... Categorizing is one of the interesting elements of Wikipedia. Because there is no help section (or FnQ section) in other web encyclopedia pages. The detailed help page is an opportunity to learn more about Wikipedia, but it also increases the barriers to entry, because there is too much information.

My question is: If Wikipedia's categorized help article makes people to access Wikipedia worse, what part of Wikipedia is better to improve?

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