now that I’ve gotten slightly more comfortable editing Wikipedia, I’ve found a fun way to hopefully make small bits of Wikipedia pages easier to read and understand

whenever I’m on a Wikipedia rabbit hole and I’m having trouble understanding what a section is trying to say, (usually because it’s very terse and using a lot of jargon) I’ll try to figure it out by reading other articles or other stuff on the internet, and edit the article as I understand more. it’s like I’m taking notes as I read, but it also (hopefully) helps others too

I don’t have a lot of attention span though so I usually only edit like 1-2 paragraphs per page, but still. I’m pretty proud of how much I cleaned up some of the text that I’ve edited idk

in the past I used to be so worried about all of Wikipedia’s complicated rules about grammar and sounding formal and etc. to the point that it scared me away from editing at all

but now I just don’t care. someone else can edit my writing to sound “formal” and “professional” if they want but what matters is that I’m taking text that was impenetrable to laypeople like me and making it (I hope) dramatically easier to read