Blogging through Wikipedia (2025)

  S ummary In the past week, I have been working on my sandbox translation task, which is to translate the Chinese entry "Yangguan Forest Farm Storm" into English in the Wikipedia Sandbox. This entry is about the social concern and investigation event caused by the destruction of the Yangguan Forest Farm shelterbelt in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province, China in 2021. The incident was caused by the Economic Information Daily, a subsidiary of Xinhua News Agency, reporting that the Yangguan Forest Farm shelterbelt was cut down on a large scale, which aroused public concern about ecological and environmental protection. Interesting Points 1.  The challenges of translating ecological protection issues in cultural contexts In Chinese online opinion, words such as "防护林" and "生态林" are common, but there is no corresponding expression in English. In order to convey the context, I need to search and use structural expressions that are closer to the relevant meaning, whi...

 WU WENHAO,2021080464 Over the past week, I worked on editing the Wikipedia article Real estate in China . The main goal of my edits was to improve the structure, update historical developments, and add more detailed statistical information based on official sources. I created a sandbox page to organize my edits systematically before integrating them into the main article. Here is the link to my sandbox page: User:Wuwenhao19960507/Real estate in China . In my edits, I focused on enhancing the "History" section of the article by providing a clearer periodization of China's real estate development, from the early housing allocation system to the commercialization reforms after 1978, and the market expansion after the 1990s. I also supplemented the "Market Structure" part with updated data on the number of real estate enterprises in China, citing the National Bureau of Statistics as the source. Additionally, I refined some phrasing to ensure that it aligns with Wi...

  Summary: Wikipedia requires articles to be based on reliable, published sources, following the  Verifiability  principle. All material that is challenged or likely to be challenged needs inline citations. The platform emphasizes  co-construction and co-management  with mechanisms like content review and editing history.  "Published"  refers to any source made public, and the reliability of sources depends on context, engagement in fact-checking, and usage in reputable outlets. Interesting Points: Wikipedia prefers secondary sources and emphasizes the importance of authoritative citations, while isolated studies and primary sources require caution. The reliability of a source is determined by its relevance to the topic and how it’s used in reputable outlets. Older sources can become outdated, and Wikipedia encourages using newer sources, though very new ones may need further validation. Reputable news outlets are considered reliable, but press release...

 1. Summary This week, I read two articles that discuss the use of AI in Wikipedia editing from different perspectives. The Slate article mainly warns us that although AI tools like ChatGPT can quickly create a lot of text, they have serious problems with accuracy, citation standards, and neutrality. AI often generates things that sound right but are actually wrong because it doesn’t really understand the facts. The Vice article goes even further, showing that AI-generated content has already quietly entered Wikipedia and that human volunteers are spending a lot of time fixing, checking, and cleaning up after it. Even though the two articles have slightly different tones, they both send the same message: AI brings not only speed, but also hidden risks that are hard to notice. 2. Interesting Items Before reading, I thought the main problem would be obvious mistakes like typos or wrong facts. But these articles made me realize that the real danger is the content that looks perfect bu...

 1) Summary I recently edited the economic section of the Wikipedia entry "Puning", and made two important additions:（ link1   link2 ） Added internal links to professional terms such as "commercial circulation industry" and "labor-intensive industry" to help readers quickly understand the relevant concepts; Added an important historical content about Puning's economic development in the early stage of reform and opening up, and described in detail the process of local state-owned enterprise reform and the rise of the private economy. 2) Interesting Points 1.Link optimization: Link "commercial circulation industry" to the relevant concept page; add geographic links to "mainland China" to make professional terms easier to understand. 2.Historical details added: Added data on Puning's commercial network covering the whole country in 1991, listed the names of 11 important enterprise groups, and described the key process of state-o...

  1. Summary This week, I mainly worked on two Wikipedia articles:  Lap Cheong (臘腸)  and  Maxim's Bakery (美心西餅) . While working on a translation task, I noticed that both articles had some missing citations or incorrect links. So I added a few missing references and deleted some broken or misdirected links. Even though these edits were relatively minor, I felt that they were still very meaningful—small fixes like these help make the articles more complete and reliable, and also make it easier for readers to find original sources when they need them. 2. Interesting Items One thing that stood out to me during this editing process was how even an article that looks well-written on the surface can still have hidden problems underneath. Especially when it comes to citations: some links might appear fine at first glance, but when you actually click on them, they turn out to be dead or lead to unrelated content. In some cases, sources were added without careful cross-checki...

   1. Summary I learned how to add and edit categories in Wikipedia. I also explored how to describe images by referring to subcategories. Categories briefly explain the contents of images with the same meaning as tags that we know. And it is important to specify categories. Because the more specific the categories are, the more meaningful they are when specifying these categories. The easiest way to create these categories is to change the categories in relation to the top categories of similar categories. For example, literature in the 2010s, literature in the 21st century, and so on. The purpose of this activity is to understand the category system of the Wikimedia project through the above activities and to organize the content more systematically. During the lecture, I added one or more categories to the Wikimedia Commons image. I added categories to the photos I uploaded, and I also added them to the images posted by others. 2.  Interesting points I starte...