Blog assignment W2

W2

Wikipedia

The Wikimedia Foundation, NGO under which Wikipedia and its related projects operate. They said that “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of knowledge. That’s our commitment.” However, this is not really new. Wikipedia has vision like concerning for the sum of all knowledge. And they believe it can bring about world peace and goodwill would be necessary to its production and some consequence of participation. Wikipedia is based on online collaborative editing tool, and “encyclopedia”. Wiki as an encyclopedia means that evidence of a geeky sort of linguistic humor and also prompts the question of whether a relatively open-to-all. And wiki can be a high-quality reference work. Some said Wikipedia can be difficultly getting a sense of the English community. There are many possibilities that people can be active contributors who are familiar with the basic practices. It includes smaller communities on the scale of hundreds or dozens of members within various boundaries. And the English Wikipedia is part of a larger community of multilingual encyclopedias and Wikimedia projects. Collective intelligence includes many aspects of cultural backgrounds. We can approach Wikipedia’s article based on diverse information. Core of Wikipedia is collaborative principles. In addition to millions of encyclopedic articles, Wikipedia is suffused with a coexisting web of practices, discussion, and policy pages, and can be touched by Wikipedia projects. We can make “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Therefore, Wikipedia have to being approached through universal access and vision of goodwill. Technological innovation can make this vision. And by using technology, Wikipedia is inspired and spread.

Predicting the Future, Wikipedia community is going on during innovation technology.  Encyclopedia helps us look back, look forward and struggle in their present to implement a universal vision. People try and try again because for a long time we didn’t can do. And that story is revealing in at least two ways. First of all, unfulfilled visions, failed projects and obscure predictions tell us that something about those people and their time. The history speaks to notion of an ambitious project of human knowledge production and dissemination. Secondly, we have a question, why did it take so long for the vision to be realized.

The result of technology make us help come together not real but online without waste of any time and space. I think It can be named shrinking community. Our collaborative intelligence is also realized by diverse devices which can access whenever and wherever. It means I can do read articles and edit more frequently. However, there are some regulations in Wikipedia. How can we enact those laws? I guess till now, English Wikipedia is standard. But, it is not reasonable. Because our collective information and intelligence made by many people who have diverse background, it is not a belonging of “English Wikipedia”. Therefore, we have to make sure what is good regulations.