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= Wikipedia Reflection Essay =

Introduction
When I was in high school, I remember my thesis teacher saying that we needed a lot of sources to complete the thesis, but Wikipedia could not be used as a source. For this reason, I always thought that the articles on Wikipedia could not be trusted completely. Because everyone can edit, some articles may not be accurate. This is the first time I have edited a Wikipedia article. I never imagined that editing a Wikipedia article would be such a "cumbersome project" that it takes so much effort and time. Fortunately, there is a newbie tutorial to help me understand how to improve an article. Even though Wikipedia already has a relatively complete beginner's instruction to help newcomers understand how to edit entries, I think the focus of these orientations is on editors who want to refine and maintain articles. I think Wikipedia needs to make some changes to improve the user experience and broaden its user base, not just by recruiting more editors, but also by recruiting more raters who are interested in rating articles.

New User Orientation
I think Wikipedia's newbie orientation is actually a prescreening system to filter out low-quality users not interested in editing articles. Because this tutorial for beginners is very complex and includes Wikipedia norms and instructions for editing articles, some new users who are not very interested in it may be deterred by it. This is also one of the solutions to the selection problem of new users that we have learned.