User:Dtkraft/TP5 Reflective Essay

During the training and article our chosen article evaluation stage, I learned that Wikipedia is surprisingly complex and that there are years of work that go behind featured articles. Not everything is that self-explanatory in Wikipedia such as creating a new article/user page or wiki code. I had the problem of creating a new page when I made this reflective essay page; I can understand why you can't just make a new article with the click of a button but it wasn't self-explanatory to make a user page either. What I learned I had to do was create a new tab and paste something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:UserName/Article_Name and you can make a new user page like that. While wiki code definitely wasn't necessary to use for what we were doing, it was still confusing, and sometimes you would be exposed to it when editing things like infoboxes or talking on talk pages in articles and it was hard to understand. Something more important I learned during the article evaluation stage was that there are a lot of tiny details that go into making a good Wikipedia article; articles that I thought were pretty good were rated as C-class