The recent Wikipedia project is teaching me a ton about Wikipedia as a whole. I had always known of Wikipedia as an unreliable source that I was advised to stay away from, so I was surprised by some of the training modules on plagiarism and AI. These modules opened my eyes to just how strict Wikipedia is on AI use and plagiarism, there are many policies in place to ensure that edits are not copied from another author’s work. While I knew not to closely copy authors’ words and call them my own, I didn’t realize that even similar sentence structure can qualify for plagiarism. I now know to be very mindful of this when making my own edits after spring break!
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