W7: Good Faith Collaboration / MINJEONG LEE



1. Summary

The book covers Wikipedia and the Wikipedia community, and also describes the history and characteristics of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a success story of an open community governed by good faith norms. Wikipedia has applied a collaborative culture to practice, and Wikipedia's system is becoming increasingly powerful. However, there are also criticisms raised on Wikipedia. Issues such as bureaucracy concerns and gender bias issues must be continuously debated in the face of it.


2. Interesting point

The author assumes that ultimately Wikipedia is not a perfectly open community, so that individual users can discuss how to balance community values. It is interesting that this discussion has made Wikipedia a successful open community. Is Wikipedia at the heart of the discussion in the document editing process?


3. Discussion

Wikipedia's most powerful function that Wikipedia readers feel is information provision. However, Wikipedia's most powerful function that Wikipedia writers feel is discussion and collaboration among users. I think this contradiction will put pressure on the first person to edit Wikipedia documents. I was also greatly embarrassed when I was discussing the first document I edited. Is Wikipedia open to anyone, but there is an invisible barrier there?

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