Hello fellow Wikipedians!
I enjoy Wikipedia because it's a productive way for me to work on writing skills, no matter how much or little time I have available. It is a bit addictive, however.
I used to enjoy starting new articles, but nowadays I'm mostly concerned with factual inaccuracies, lack of citations, and copyright violations.
The two most useful things in any Wikipedia article are the introductory text (usually contains reasonably good definitions), and the references/external links. On a good article, there's plenty of places to go to learn more if you really want to know about a subject.
I think Wikipedia's Featured Articles tend to make it a great source of intellectual entertainment. FAs are usually far beyond encyclopedic articles in a real encyclopedia, more an amazing work of nonfiction. Because they have been polished to a gleaming near-perfection, Featured Articles represent very well what Wikipedia wants so desperately to be (and may yet some day become, at least on some topics).
Also the Talk pages serve to illuminate controversies on an issue and gauge different opinions. I find these instructive to read on occasion as well.
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Hello fellow Wikipedians!
I enjoy Wikipedia because it's a productive way for me to work on writing skills, no matter how much or little time I have available. It is a bit addictive, however.
I used to enjoy starting new articles, but nowadays I'm mostly concerned with factual inaccuracies, lack of citations, and copyright violations.
The two most useful things in any Wikipedia article are the introductory text (usually contains reasonably good definitions), and the references/external links. On a good article, there's plenty of places to go to learn more if you really want to know about a subject.
I think Wikipedia's Featured Articles tend to make it a great source of intellectual entertainment. FAs are usually far beyond encyclopedic articles in a real encyclopedia, more an amazing work of nonfiction. Because they have been polished to a gleaming near-perfection, Featured Articles represent very well what Wikipedia wants so desperately to be (and may yet some day become, at least on some topics).
Also the Talk pages serve to illuminate controversies on an issue and gauge different opinions. I find these instructive to read on occasion as well.
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