Last week at the Celsa, Bob, my English teacher, asked us to contribute to Wikipedia, the free web-based collaborative encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Firstly, I had to find something to write about. And that wasn't easy because there was already something written on Wikipedia for every single subject I wanted to write an article about.
I finally decided to write about Guilherme Marconi, a brasilian artist I like, who is not yet on the free encyclopedia. I easily created an account and I wrote a short text without difficulties. But unfortunately, like some of my wormates, I posted a text in English on the French wiki and my contribution has been deleted without explanation... I worked for nothing.
I didn't know that Wikipedia was so controlled. The free encyclopedia imposes its rules and I think that it's the only way to become more reliable. Indeed, how can I trust an encyclopedia if anybody can post anything without control ? If your article doesn't perfectly satisfy requirements...well... it will just be deleted.
