W4: After reading “The Puzzle of Openness” / MINJEONG LEE


1. Summary


Wikipedia's motto, "Free encyclopedia for anyone to edit," shows that Wikipedia seeks openness. Openness and anonymous editing are important identities for Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the open content communities where anyone can access and edit and share the results of collaboration with everyone. This has the following characteristics: open content, transparency, integrity, non-discrimination, non-interference.


2. Interesting point

Open-source software can be judged by objective criteria such as speed or efficiency, leading to practical mass collaboration. On the other hand, knowledge has no objective criteria for judgment, so misinformation can remain unchanged on Wikipedia, where non-experts participate in editing.
The comparison between the two was interesting because open source software and Wikipedia were similar and different. In fact, wrong information is often known because open content communities such as Wikipedia can participate by anyone. Fortunately, Wikipedia has many users and strict rules, so the right information is usually shared, but Korea’s “Knowledge-in” and “Namuwiki” often share wrong information.


3. Discussion point

If anyone can edit it, if misinformation can be maintained, how should we deal with information that can vary depending on prejudice? What is the correct information? There is a risk that information can be biased according to the biases held by many Wikipedia users.

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