I think I was surprised at the beginning when somebody corrected my typo not long after my edit. I had felt nobody would care what I do on Wikipedia, which might be the reason sometimes people misbehave, but when I got the feedback quite instantly, I felt that Wikipedia is alive and I gotta be careful putting the right information.
Also, the surprising thing is that there is nothing we can't do as long as we try. I remember that I was wondering why I couldn't put the picture of a company into the infobox. Peter said that was weird too and he helped me to ask people around how to do so or if we could do that. Wikpedians helped us to create a new line in the infobox which we can add a picture, and I felt so proud of doing it. As I was told during the class, we can't know everything, but we can surely try to do what we want to do, and there are always people out there trying to help me out to make Wikipedia better and more trustworthy. That's what I was surprised the most about Wikipedia.
I also feel surprised that my edits was improved even after a few minutes. After that, I become careful when using or editing information on Wikipedia. And your experience about making a new line on adding pictures is so interesting. :) We all can improve Wikipedia by trying!
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