This final Wikipedia article taught me a lot about Wikipedia, and the effort that people really put into making a free internet encyclopedia a reality. The website is comparable to google, in the fact that it is website that has an article written on just about any topic you can think of. With a crazy amount of active users and editors, every day the website seems to expand into an even bigger server of knowledge made and used by the public. With this being said, my experience with the website has made me feel honored that i was able to take the knowledge that i learned about a topic, and pass it onward to anyone who cared to learn more about the rather small garage rock band from the Chicago suburbs. When I was first told that we were going to be doing this project, I had mix emotions. It …show more content…
It really made me want to write the articles the proper way, and i know that if their were any major mistakes the community of editors would have fixed it. I wish it would have been easier to get copyright free pictures on Wikipedia because I was stuck with using the ones that they had. Luckily, the album cover for Terrible Human Beings was already a copyright free option, but just wasn't on the Wikipedia page, so i quickly added that without any problem. I think Wikipedia is really well run and deserves to definitely should be able to be used as a valid source for research papers. Its cool because even if they don't let you use Wikipedia as a source, you could go to the citations of the topic you have to write about, and they have a whole bunch of sources you can use which would be usable for picky teachers, so that's a clever trick to get sources without technically using Wikipedia. Being able to discuss with other users about changes you plan on making to an article is also sweet because most of them are genuinely there to make Wikipedia a valid source of