Wikipedia – Article Improvement

While doing a story about Wikipedia, a reporter from the Daily Telegraph (UK) contacted the Wikimedia Foundation office asking how articles get improved on Wikipedia. Instead of explaining how, Danny Wool told the reporter to examine the article [[Polar exploration]], which was a short article, and see how the community could grow it in two weeks.

So in the last 24 hours, it’s been edited 71 times, and gone from a stub to a page with illustrations, photos, full paragraphs and references. It needs quite a bit more work on the history of Arctic exploration. But keep your eye on the edit history of this article to see how it grows. Or edit yourself.

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