I am officially a Wikepedian. Woohoo! To make a mark on the world’s most commonly accessed encyclopaedia is very interesting to me. I recommend you all to try it and become a Wikepedian too!
Creating a Wikipedia account is rather easy. You simply provide a username (I have chosen to use briannabanana0) with your email address and you are ready to go! All you have to do is choose any topic you wish to edit or add information to. The options are endless! This is what makes this super exciting for me. You can write about absolutely anything. For this course in particular, a topic that I am passionate about is the topic of preserving habitats and, more specifically, forest conservation and rehabilitation. After reading a United Nations article on forest restoration, and their efforts to reestablish forestry all over the world, I have chosen to edit a Wikipedia page on Forest Restoration (link down below). There is an existing quote that is already on the page that states, “The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) provides the opportunity to restore hundreds of millions of hectares of degraded forests and other ecosystems. I am going to further look into what the United Nations is doing and update this page. I think it is important to include the collaborations they have made with many organizations, such as the AFR 100 (more information about this organization is mentioned in my UN blog post). I’ll update you guys as I go along. In the meantime, create your own account! Happy editing 🙂
Here is the page I wish to edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_restoration
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 