W10. What would make writing on Wikipedia easier for me? / posted by Sojeong Yeon

     
It is more difficult for me to write a Wikipedia article in English than in Korean. There is a difficulty in language expression because it should be written in English, not Korean. However, when I compared Korean Wikipedia with English Wikipedia so far, I wrote and edited more often in English Wikipedia. Despite language problems, there are many factors that make me write an English Wikipedia more frequent.
 
One of the ways to make writing and editing easier for me, whether on English Wikipedia or Korean Wikipedia, is "automated tools." In any editing mode, if you only check the button or know the code, you can create a frame and make the article cleaner and more organized. Especially, English Wikipedia has more articles than Korean Wikipedia so there are many English articles that are well written. Well-structured text has good templates, pictures, and charts. Sometimes, copying this thing is hard in visual editing mode, but in 'edit source' it is very easy because you just take the code, copy it and change the contents slightly. In other words, there are many articles and frameworks that I can refer to in writing articles in English Wikipedia, so I can write the articles easily.
 
Another reason I can easily write Wikipedia article is that there is already a easy-to-ask 'question room' for experienced users on writing Wikipedia article. There are various functions and rules in Wikipedia. If you find it difficult to use and follow it, and if you can not solve your questions immediately, you may easily give up. But it is good that questions can be answered quickly by many other users. And in a similar vein, posts about wiki guidelines are often useful. It is described in detail and has links to examples or more detailed pages, and links to related pages, so you can easily understand functions and use them.

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  1. 안지영May 13, 2018 at 2:30 AM

    I couldn't think of the question room but I also think that question room is very useful to me. Sometime it is hard to ask question on Internet and understand the answer which is just written. But I think if there were no question room, it would be very hard to understand all the policy on Wikipedia. So I agree with your opinion that question room makes writing on Wikipedia easier for us.

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