W15: What I did learn while editing Wikipedia?

I learned a lot things from editing Wikipedia.

First, I felt the pleasure of participating in the improving of knowledge. I wrote an article eon Wikipedia, which had not been on Korean Wikipedia. Through my working to editing, it is possible that Korean users be access this knowledge, so I get achievement.

I know that in Wikipedia, the article was written by the several workers, but I was not sure if it was active. However, by participating in editing myself, I found that this was going on actively. I wrote the "Xinjiang Conflict" article. As I said above, it was not in Korean Wikipedia before. Naturally, I thought users were not interested in this. So, when I first wrote it, I translated the contents of the English Wiki's article using a translator, registered it without editing, and I thought "later, I will edit that.". However, the other worker deleted in a few hours later of registration. According to the History, it is because I translate with machine translation.

I felt the joy of many participation, but I also felt a sense of regret. Like the name of the lecture, there were few opportunities to feel collective intelligence. A month has passed since the my article was registered, but there has been little additional edit. A small number of workers participated, but it was a simple edit including typo correction.

There was a regret, but I think this is because it is an unpopular topic so no users focused that. And if I have a chance in the future, I will also participate in editing on the topic that is a hot topic in that time.

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