As always, I can have a lot of new experiences from ALES204 class. for this assignment we are able to become a Wikipedia editor to update or create a stub. This was my first time to become a Wikipedia author and felt quite interesting. Be honest this assignment was a little bit confused me because I thought people who can edit Wikipedia must be knowledgable and professional but not anyone. I got some help from our classmate Junchao Zhang who updated a quite interesting article about Parboiled rice. Although I am using Wikipedia almost everyday to search what I want to know, it was the first time I knew that Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia based on online collaborative editing. Also, I was very surprised to how easy to edit it.
Since we have to post an own article on Wikipedia and shows to everyone, I think it is better to choose a topic form our studying field. I decided to write about CWD(Chronic wasting disease) due to I have done some research and data analysis on this subject this year. CWD is a prion disease, also known as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) that affects free-range wildlife. It is found in mule and white tail deer, Rocky Mountain Elk and moose. As another animal diseases, CWD is concerned as food risk in our lives sometime. I find that some background about CWD have been update on the Wikipedia, thus I put three paragraphs about food safety concern on CWD this time.
Although I believe that most editors are responsible to their uploaded materials, I still don`t think it is a good idea to use Wikipedia resources as a reference in your academic works, because I see how easy anyone can rewrite the contents. However, I found that the following references are really good resources that we can use as bibliography.
