Week9-- My Wikipedia Editing Experience This Week --WU WENHAO

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Over the past week, I continued my editing work on Wikipedia, focusing this time on the article Industry of China. To better organize and prepare my edits, I created a sandbox page here: User:Wuwenhao19960507/sandbox_1.

In this editing session, I worked on updating and expanding several major sections of the article, including the History, Aerospace industry, Information Technology Industry, and Energy industry parts. I refined the structure of these sections by organizing developments more chronologically, adding updated statistics, and ensuring that each subsection reflected recent trends and achievements. For example, I incorporated updates about China's advances in supercomputing, breakthroughs in the aerospace sector, the rapid growth of its IT industry, and its progress toward renewable energy goals. Throughout my edits, I maintained a neutral tone and cited reliable sources to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

During this process, I encountered an important challenge regarding the citation of sources. Some of the materials I needed to reference were only available in PDF format, rather than being accessible through standard web URLs. I learned that in such cases, it is necessary to upload and archive the PDF file on the Wikimedia Commons or another reliable Wikimedia project to ensure verifiability. After watching a tutorial video on the proper procedures, I was able to successfully complete this step and provide appropriate references for my edits.

An interesting discovery I made during this week's editing was how Wikipedia sometimes handles content summarization across different articles. For example, in the section about supercomputing in China, rather than rewriting all the information or sourcing it again, editors can simply insert a linking sentence like: "This paragraph is an excerpt from Supercomputing in China." This method allows a direct excerpt from another Wikipedia article without requiring repeated citations for every fact, as long as the content is already well-sourced in the original linked article. I found this technique very efficient and helpful for managing closely related topics across multiple pages.

One question that arose during my editing was about how much content can appropriately be excerpted from other Wikipedia articles without risking redundancy or loss of context. While summarizing information can make pages cleaner and more interconnected, it also runs the risk of making certain sections feel too brief or disconnected. I am curious about how experienced Wikipedia editors balance between providing enough standalone detail and avoiding excessive duplication across pages.

Overall, this week's experience helped me better understand not only the technical aspects of editing, such as citation management and content linking, but also the deeper editorial principles that govern Wikipedia’s structure and quality standards.