Before reading the articles I always heard others talking about Wikipedia as an invalid source of information. Anyone can write about any topic is what they would say. However, I would go to Wikipedia for my own personal desire of finding information. Then, if I found something that sounded not quit right I would search other sources. I also find Wikipedia very easy to understand. Sometimes you read college-based articles and they are hard to follow, but by looking at the topic on Wikipedia you might be able to understand it better.
After reading the article, I found that you can reach external links related to your topic and also further readings. You must make sure these are valid sources of information but you have to do that with any source. It also helps create ideas for topics as well. I am in no way savvy with the Wikipedia site so when I read about the Wikipedia Interface I was delighted to find that you can look at a discussion about the topic and the history of how the article came to be. It's also nice to know that some of the material written by people is deleted quickly if it does not add any new information to the article. All of these contributions to the Wikipedia site now give me a better understanding of how to use the site more efficiently.
When writing an article in Wikipedia you have to review, converse, revise, and share with others who have written about the same topic. You do not want to add or write an article that is repetitive to something that another has written. Wikipedia authors will discuss or question some of the contributors as to why they added what they did. This article taught me how to use Wikipedia effectively and not to rule out the information just because anyone can change the data.
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