Brieya Walker: Wikipedia Assignment

The Wikipedia Assignment was something different for me that I’ve never done before. In my experience many professors told me that using Wikipedia wasn’t allowed because anyone and everyone can go into whichever article and alter it however they please. Doing this assignment taught me new things about how editing Wikipedia really works if one does it the correct way. During the training I learned the five core rules of Wikipedia, what the sandbox is, talk pages, watch lists, and wikiprojects. This exercise also gave me the opportunity to actually edit articles. What I liked about the training and exercise was that it included actual tutorial videos of what to do. Also while actually working on the actual wikipedia page it had little bubbles that had directions to guide you to the next step or what to do. I learned that editing on Wikipedia is actually not that quick and easy like everyone thinks. Each fact that someone writes on there has to be referenced from a reliable source that cannot be biased. In order to add images to Wikipedia you can never use images found through image search, Instagram, Tumblr, Reddit, Imgur, or even the “Free image” or “free stock photo” websites. You have to find images with proof that the creator gives permission for people can use their photos. In addition, I already knew that Wikipedia articles were edited by many people but I didn’t know that they had a talk page where editors discuss among one another, their edits why they’re making changes.There’s really a lot of rules to using Wikipedia and I don’t see myself ever editing an article on there again unless I take another course that requires me to do so.

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