W7 : Good Faith Collaboration : The Culture of Wikipedia / 박소민(SOMIN PARK)

 1. Summary

This book presents the characteristics of Wikipedia and its users, explaining how Wikipedia has become a successful open encyclopedia through good faith collaboration. More specifically, while examining various Wikipedia articles and problems within Wikipedia, the author explains how good faith collaboration can occur and problems can be solved. 

2. Interesting / Useful point

Last week, I saw many students talking about Wikipedia's gender problem : the lack of female users. Interestingly, this book said the same thing about it as we commented on the problem. But, contrary to the book's implication that the problem will be solved positively, the problem is still not being solved and Wikipedia still have the problem for a long time.   

3. What I learned from reading it

I learned about the process of developing cooperative culture into collective intelligence. Just as people gathered and changed society from a hierarchical one to a democratic one, such disputes continue constantly within Wikipedia, and eventually only what most people think is right remains. Eventually, this change in society or within Wikipedia is caused by good faith collaboration.  

Comments

  1. WANG XIAOLINGApril 16, 2021 at 10:50 PM

    Anyone can write or edit for Wikipedia, and I think this is both an advantage and a disadvantage—especially in terms of gender. For example, the "New York Times" article pointed out its huge gender imbalance, and at least one review article claimed that Wikipedia discriminated against female novelists. Other publications also pointed out racial prejudice. So I think one of the ways to solve this problem is to include many famous women.

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  2. Park Chan Young (박찬영)April 17, 2021 at 7:11 AM

    In my opinion, it has been a long time since we talked about gender discrimination in society, but overall, gender issues still have many things to be solved and the pace of improvement is slow. The same seems to be true of Wikipedia. What's important is whether Wikipedia is willing to improve, but slow or blindfolded.

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