Wikipedia is referred to this mass of information that has been collected becoming articles for general information of diverse amounts topics and and some summaries of in depth topics in the scientific community. Despite this wikipedia is not used in papers directly but rather as a way to do a quick check on few details. These articles can be edited by anyone and it takes a while before that information can be verified.
I became a wikipedian merely due to this class project, but as i learnt more about it and had to do some contributions of my own. It feels great knowing that people get to read your understanding of topics using sources that you have read and interpreted. Even though it is great there is another part, which is that other wikipedians that comment and read through your contributions with a fine eye. This part is somewhat frightening, but i have been assured in the training modules that is part of being a wikipedian.
This is how we grow as contributors to this online library and develop writing skills. I may have begun my journey as wikipedian for a class project but I intend to stay and help with the misinformations that exist on the wide internet. Only then can wikipedia and other sites like this can one day be “truthful” and reliable to all of our visitors, whether they are researchers or not.
image derived from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_page#/media/File:2019_Screenshot_of_English_Wikipedia_homepage.png
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 
