English subtitles for clip: File:Wikipedia in Education (2 of 12) What was your first Wikipedia article?.webm

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People in Hong Kong they do not
really understand how it works,

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like for Wikipedia.

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They think that website just
exists online-- like just exists.

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And they don't know they
can edit it on Wikipedia.

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They just read the
information they need.

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At first, I didn't know that
Wikipedia is free to edit.

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And soon after
registering, I began

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creating articles about different
theaters and theater themes.

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I first did edit
Wikipedia as a student,

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although, I didn't
even use my username.

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I worked with another student.

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And I was in college.

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One of my instructors
really felt

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that women-- Native-American
writers-- that we were studying

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were underrepresented.

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So we had the option to edit.

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Back when I was a
second-year student--

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at the faculty of languages--
I had a professor.

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Her name was Radwa Kotait.

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And she was teaching
me translation.

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And she told us
about the program,

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and that we get the chance
to practice translation.

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And I myself, I was
a little of a nerd,

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so I didn't really
get the time to join

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any activity outside studying.

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So when I heard
about this activity,

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I really liked it, because
it gave me the opportunity

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to practice translation and
have fun at the same time.

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In 2010, I was like surfing
through the Internet looking

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for a particular topic-- a
particular cuisine in India,

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but there was no article
about that particular dish.

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So I thought, why not go ahead
and create an article myself.

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Do you remember
your first article?

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Yeah.

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It was-- do you
know what lichen is?

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Lichen is a sort of a fungus
or an allergy at the same time.

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So that was the first
article that I wrote.

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And I later turned it into a
very long article

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with many books cited and
all the details in.

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Wow!

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That's so cool.

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It's quite cool, but
also a bit nerdy.

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I took a illegal cab and I was
deceived by the taxi driver.

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And I got really angry.

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And I just figured out there is
no documentation on Wikipedia.

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And then I just tried to collect
all the references and all

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the legal documents on why you
cannot use this kind of taxi.

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In 2011, Wikimania, which
is our global conference,

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was in Israel in Haifa.

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And a good friend of mine,
who was a Wikipedian,

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suggested that I come.

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And I was already part of
the global open-access,

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open-knowledge movement.

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And I came to the conference
and I heard lectures

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about GLAM-Wiki and
Wiki in education.

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And that was it; I was hooked.

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