Wikipedia's founder is Jimmy Wales who was a computer scientist at MIT. Before it was made, nobody thought that wikipedia will be possible. But he went against everyone's expectation. Although he was a scientist, he mixed computer science ideals with insight about social organization and norms. He thought that wikipedia is not just website but a community like a family. Finally he succeed in developing wikipedia. People who use wiki freely and voluntarily provide their own knowledge in wikipedia. And by sharing their knowledge, collective community was formed. For rich understanding about these phenomena in wikipedia, ethnographies is the most important discipline despite other academic disciplines are also imporatant. Additionally Wales also seems to want to know us importance of humanness of everything inside. As he said, wikipedia is community formed through a practice by many people who don't know each other and live everywhere in the world. They collaborate and their collaboration produced a social good like many articles in wikipedia. It showed us sum of all knowledge is enormous.
Frankley speaking, I didn't know much about wikipedia before I learned about it. .I thought that wikipedia was just a dictionary. So if i lived before wikipedia was made, I would think like any other person that it is impossible. because I thought there will be nobody who use wikipedia for no pay and knowledge in wikipedia will be free-for-all. But wikipedia formed community that shares their knowledge each other, as a result, collective intelligence was made and it has become one of the great encyclopedia.
Wikipedia is encyclopedia that was formed by collective intelligence. And It is made not by specialists who are well acquainted with particular field but by everyone no matter who they are. Many people discuss various topics. I also tried address wikipedia these days discussing topics like other people. And by doing, I felt that wikipedia is familiar with ecosystem. Articles about topics are change everyday. Sometimes my edits are deleted and my article are developed by other person. We communicate with others for making better wikipedia. In class, professor said that he felt interested in wikipedia when he experienced what I experienced theses days like being deleted my editing. I'm angry in this situation yet, but by activating wikipedia more and more, I want to felt interested in wikipedia like professor. And I want to be a member who makes collective intelligence for wikipedia.
FYI: Wales was not a MIT Computer Scientist. He was the founder of Bomis, which was primarily known as an Internet search portal.
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me know. I think i missunderstood a reading.
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