W6 / Who do you think edits Wikipedia? The young, the old, male, female, Americans, koreans? / Jeongyoon Oh(오정윤)
I think it's hard to tell who edits Wikipedia more by categorizing gender and race perfectly. Contributing to Wikipedia editing seems to be more influenced by individual personality and characteristics. For example, a person who wants his or her opinion to be used in an influential way, such as ‘an orator in the Internet world’. There are two reasons why I think a style like ‘an orator in the Internet world’ contributes a lot to Wikipedia editing.
First, you can write influential articles to many people even if you don't have a job as a writer or a reporter. If you don't have a job like a writer or a reporter, you only write your own article on your personal blog. But in that case, it is unlikely that many people will come to your blog and read your posts. Unless you're a very influential blogger. But Wikipedia is a public site that the world's population looks for when it needs information. If you post on such an influential site, more people will read and get information than personal blogs.
Second, they actively contribute to things that affect people. This is because they feel proud by sharing the information to people, even if they don't know all the specific information perfectly. Some people may be ashamed to let them know because they know too little information, but people like the ‘an orator in the Internet world’ are willing to share even a little information to help others. Wikipedia may be growing bigger with the good influence and activism of people like the ‘an orator in the Internet world’.
I think everyone have edits Wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteIt ignores factors such as the editor's gender, age, social grade, occupation, and so on, so long as it is a registered user, it has the right to write, modify and edit entries. This allows the team of Wikipedia authors to expand infinitely in theory, The group of authors from over the world carries on the open interactive discussion and the research to the content of a certain subject field puts forward various different or even opposite opinions, which is advantageous to the research of the subject content.