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Reflective essay

week 2 entry: I chose the climate change article to critique. This is a highly notable topic, and therefore contained a vast array of resources. The point of critiquing a good article was to hopefully better understand what my article should resemble when I am finished. The research is not worrying to me, I can find reliable resources. I am worried at this point that I picked a topic that will too controversial, and therefore biased by my perspective. I am also worried about the logistics of using Wikipedia still. The trainings and exercises have been very helpful, but I feel unqualified to write an article. It took me ten minutes to figure out how to make an edit to my sandbox in order to draft this.

week 4 entry: I chose the article topic telecoupling. There is no Wikipedia page for telecoupling yet so I will be creating one. I started a draft in the wizard page, but I dont know how to access it easily. I have been using the link I added to my first assignment in order to reach the telecoupling draft page again. I am worried about adding an image without copyright violations. I want to use the diagram created by Liu. We have peer reviews next week, but I don't know my group yet, and I don't know how to review on topics that I'm not informed about. I have the understanding that I am the only one in the class with my topic.

week 5 entry: This week we peer edited each other's articles. After doing it, I still don't know how to contribute to a talk page. I did figure out how to make edits to other articles though. It was difficult to peer review articles for topics that I did not research because I had to believe all the information given to me. For one of the articles, I still have not gotten a response as to which section of the article I am reviewing so I haven't done it yet. I hope I get that information soon so my grade doesn't suffer. I think that my view of this project is vastly different than those people with either partners or existing pages. The amount of research in existing articles is expansive compared to the beginning of mine. I do not know how to gage how much content I create, because I do not know how much content others have created in collaborations. I did not know until after we were discussing the peer review assignment that there is a difference between a live article, and an article being worked on. I do not know how to make my article live, and I feel unprepared for the possibility of it being live.