User talk:Leehyu
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[edit]Hello, Leehyu, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:54, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
I wrote a peer review for you
[edit]You can find it here: User:Leehyu/High_School_Rapper/Khascall_Peer_Review Kaylea Champion (talk) 20:18, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia Analysis (Task 7)
[edit]So far within my 2 months of using Wikipedia, my experience so far has been out of expectation. With my first article going live, I have few pointers that could improve the Wikipedia community. One, the overall web experience is difficult to navigate. This could be because of my lack of time spent on the website, I found it most troubling to identify the difference between the sandbox edits (User:xxx/Article Name versus User:xxx/sandbox. The tools provided in the right panel has a lot of general tools that I have never touched. Secondly, when I went live with my article, I was expecting to gain a sense of accomplishment, however, I felt nothing proud about the article going live. I want to say that this is because of no rewards system set in place in Wikipedia, I did not receive any badge nor recognition within the community. It's hard to even track rather my article edits have been seen by someone or the public. Once the article is live, it's like I have no other reason to go back. This could be something that Wikipedia can think about going forward on rewarding users for their participation. Maybe with certain amounts of article views, the contributors gets recognized. Lastly, this relates to my previous point, I do not see myself going back to Wikipedia to make any more contributions. I do not feel a sense of community in this website, this could be from the lack of user appreciation. With this improvement, we could see more of needs-based commitment of users where I feel majority of users within Wikipedia is identity-based who purpose is to genuinely help the community.
Relating back to the user navigation, I do appreciate the guidelines and helpful tutorial provided in my wiki edu dashboard. However, I am not sure if this guideline is provided for all newly Wiki users. Even with this guide on how to do certain stuff, in my experience not everything is covered clearly and it's very difficult process when going live with an article. Every little edits that I make pops up a whole essay of restrictions that I feel like not pursuing. I was met with an essay of restriction when I was attempting to make my article live, it's overwhelming and scary. My recommendation is simplifying this process so that contributing users will not give up or leave during the process. Strict guidelines will often prevent users to even initiate editing articles. During my process of editing, I had issues with promotional tone and certain wikipedia format that I had to follow. Editing an article and going live with it is not an easy process as one may think.
Overall, if there is one thing I will definitely change is the user recognition. To have a community starts with the users within. There are veteran wikipedia users who have made thousands of articles and I would hope that Wikipedia offers a badging system or even a symbol next to their username to verify that this user is a veteran Wikipedian. A community can easily lose their users because of the lack of user engagement. Other than the feature of peer reviewing and generating a topic in the "Talk" section of the site, I don't really see other ways to involve with other users in this community. In comparison to Reddit, Reddit has a high user engagement that makes them so unique and engaging. Their way of upvoting a comment and the ability to post both ananolymously and freely has gained them their popularily. Here in Wikipedia, there's no such upvoting system. Users will have no clue whether or not their article is popular or how the audience think of their article. Because you can't really comment on somebody's article other than editing it yourself. On the other hand, I do appreciate the strict guideline that Wikipedia has set in place, because there are millions of users to come to Wikipedia as their source of information and if Wikipedia were to have less strict rules for article editing, that will place so many problems within the community. First, the main author will not like some random unknown, unrelated information on their article which will drag down both reputation and flow which I've seen it happen.
I do want to say that different features that I was able to touch up on was very impressing. The opportunity to peer review somebody's article as well as the process of choosing an article was intriguing. There was so many articles that I would have never imagined somebody writing was all here. It was difficult to navigate through the site, getting familiar with different tools, and understanding the difference between two sandbox edits. The main suggestion I would say again is improving the user engagement. Upon making my article edits live, I felt good about it for few seconds until I realize no one will know it was me that edited this, or the original writer will careless that I made an edit on their article. The only community I engaged in was with the classmates articles. Other than that, Wikipedia lacks user engagement, no such incentives for users to stay and contribute. It's a great website, however, I do not have a strong commitment nor motivation to stay and see myself coming back to make an article in the future at this time. Leehyu (talk) 10:42, 5 May 2024 (UTC)