After being asked to edit Wikipedia, my initial thoughts were that I felt I was not really “worthy” of editing a page. Then I thought about it a bit more and found that Wikipedia is based on the idea of being an open source and therefore each post from different people would help develop the knowledge that is found in Wikipedia. Also if what I added was incorrect, avid Wikipedia users would soon correct it. The novelty that is Wikipedia is based on the fact that normal people edit the information that is present, and it allows one to feel that they have easily provided people with knowledge.
After this decision, I believe that I would edit a page about one of my favorite soccer players or about some music page. The reason I would choose to edit one of these pages is because these are the two fields that I believe I know most about. Basically those are the only two categories that I would feel comfortable providing knowledge from. I find that it is important that people do not post information that they are not sure of on Wikipedia as I myself do not like receiving false facts about ideas I am searching.
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