I had a wonderful experience being a Wikipedian. I had the opportunity of editing an existing Wikipedia page by adding more information. This included doing further research on different topics and subtopics and then adding more information to the subtopics to make them more comprehensive. This experience also gave me the opportunity of being a researcher as I had to do more research and add more references to support my arguments.
It was exciting for me to be able to contribute to the information on the Wikipedia page. There is a large number of people who use Wikipedia to help them in understanding different concepts. My contribution to this Wikipedia, therefore, made me happy because I know it will be read by a large number of people and therefore I will have the opportunity of impacting people’s lives. That is, I have participated in achieving the goal of Wikipedia which is the creation of a comprehensive as well as a neutrally written summary of the existing mainstream knowledge about the topic of human impact on the environment and most especially how human impacts plant ecology.
In addition, editing the Wikipedia page has also enabled me to improve my writing skills. The editing of different paragraphs helped me to sharpen my writing skills so as to create a positive impression to the target readers. Lastly, It helped me to communicate my message on how human impacts affect plant ecology. This has been very helpful as it has helped me to understand in-depth the contents taught in class about plant ecology and how human activities can negatively affect it. I would, therefore, do it again with different content to learn more about it.
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 