W3: Thoughts after reading "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia" - Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

 ● W3: Thoughts after reading "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia" - Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.


After reading "Nazis and Norms" and "The Pursuit of the Universal Encyclopedia", I have a detailed understanding of the development history of Wikipedia.   

• The development history of Wikipedia.

In 2000, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded Nupedia. They wanted experts in various fields to write content and submit it to peer review, so that Nupedia would become a professional encyclopedia. In the end, Nupedia became a perfect existence comparable to professional encyclopedias. However, the development of Nupedia was too slow, and only 21 articles passed the review after one year. The founders proposed to introduce a "Wiki" model to Nupedia, which is stuck in a bottleneck. Wiki refers to a hypertext system that allows everyone in a specific group to browse, create, and modify text, and can effectively control and manage different versions of the system, and it can also keep all modification records. However, the experts involved in the operation worry that UGC content will greatly undermine the integrity and credibility of the information, and most people do not agree with the introduction of the "everyone participates in editing" model. This is considered to be a supplementary tool to the professional encyclopedia Nupedia. It was renamed Wikipedia, and it went live in a few days. Twenty years later, it has indeed become "a world where everyone can obtain all human knowledge for free" as Wales hoped.

• The value of Wikipedia in the future is immeasurable.

Through a deeper understanding of Wikipedia, the voice assistant that is used the most every day is also trained with a data set based on Wikipedia. Then I think the value of Wikipedia in the future is immeasurable. There is a saying that artificial intelligence is actually data intelligence. In the present and future where humans and machines are gradually merging, Wikipedia's rich, neutral, deep and structured text will nourish machine algorithms and models. This is the prerequisite for machines to understand humans. 

• problem

Although Wikipedia is liked by more people because of its free and open nature, why the founder made Wikipedia a non-profit organization? If it is not a non-profit organization, I think it is entirely possible to become a higher value company.


About discussing how the world’s largest encyclopedia was born and how it works differently compared to most other popular websites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6TTLZzEQHo


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