For the final exam, we were asked to blog the process of how to become a Wikipedian. And here it is!
I frequently use Wikipedia as a secondary source. Its super clear and easy to read. But on other hand when you try to edit or create a Wikipedia page, that’s a nightmare. See the reference part where no one bother to read whenever they view a page. That what a wikipedian has to struggling to deal with everytime they do the job. My work is about Henry Chandler – a ecologist. Luckily this guy is easy to “stalk” so I don’t have to include a lot of reference except from the school pages of where he taught.
The hardest part is how to cite the reference carefully and insert blue links in text. The format for reader is easy to read but for wikipedian, it look like a matrix that you have to be a IT student to able to understand.
Overall, this exercise is different than most of what I did before. But leaning how to make a Wikipedia page is definitely rewarding. Knowing how to do it helps us a lot of how we use it later. After this assignment, I have a different opinion about all the people behind the scene of billions of amazing works that appear in Wikipedia.
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 