W8. What do you find difficult and enjoyable?

What do you find difficult and enjoyable?

Reviewing some of our edits

Shinhee Kim

1.    What do you find difficult?

When I first edited Wikipedia, I had a hard time figuring out what to edit. After making corrections one by one, the most difficult point was to select the subject to be corrected. It was very difficult to find out what content was poorly written in the English and Korean versions. Then, in order to find out what was wrong, I had to read full text of single topic. Also, just because I know it doesn't mean I can change it at will, so it took time to find a reliable source.


2.    What do you find most enjoyable?

The modification process was not easy, but as I took time, I felt the best when I thought that what I modified was visible to many people. In particular, I could be proud of myself as a Korean by adding Korean historical events and correcting the wrong contents on the English Wikipedia. I thought it was one of the things that kept our history. Sometimes the process of selecting and revising a topic took a long time, but it was a rewarding task as much as I took the time.


3.   Discussion

Which Wikipedia field is easy for us to modify?


Comments

  1. JeongYoon OhApril 26, 2021 at 8:18 AM

    You corrected the wrong history of Korea. It's really cool! I usually correct Korean traditional food and cities, but I haven't found any wrong information yet. But I also feel very rewarding adding information related to Korea.

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