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Something fun I found recently is that on the Wikipedia app (ugh another app I know but its Wikipedia so I'm chill with it) is the places feature, which takes a map of your location - if you allow it - and shows all the Wikipedia articles with locations around you! Isn't that so sick. I learned a lot I didn't know in just a couple minutes of clicking about.

As someone who has made (1) Wikipedia article, it kinda sucks. You need to find all these sources, and I'm always second guessing how good the source is and it just takes so much time. Although if you ever find yourself bored behind a computer at some underpaid internship I find its a great way to shirk your responsibilities.

But there are still ways to contribute, with the added bonus of allowing you to go and explore your area!

Many Wikipedia articles have either no or way outdated pictures from like 2008, with terrible resolution and the stink of a financial crisis. But updating these is easy - all you need is to take a quick pic on your cellphone (already much better quality than whatever is already on there) and to upload it onto Wikimedia with a short description. This will makes a huge difference on how the article will look - it goes from some random text on some lame thing in some wack town to a Wikipedia article, with pictures and everything!

This concept goes for other things as well. Going to see a local up and coming band that you think might make it big? Take a clear picture of them on stage (or on whatever they may be standing on at the time) and publish it onto Wikimedia. If/when they get a full article, thanks in part to your support in growing them as a band, that photo will instantly make their article go from doom to boom!

Anyway, just something to think about.

P.S. You can also scrounge around Wikimedia commons for already existing pictures to add to pages - this is how I found the picture that now is on Ax-Mans wiki article.