Blogging through Wikipedia (2021)

  I learned a lot from editing 10 Wikipedia articles every week, writing articles about Wikipedia's main project. I've learned a lot, but if I have to summarize it, I can reduce the number of things I learned while editing Wikipedia during the semester to three.    First, I read many articles through Wikipedia editing. In order to know how to write an article at first, I have to read the article already written. During this process, I was able to read many articles and study the forms and characteristics of documents that only Wikipedia sites have. At first, I read articles for study purposes, but it became a habit to read articles, so I read more and more Wikipedia articles regularly and it helped me greatly to improve my personal knowledge.    Second, it helped me learn objective writing. In Wikipedia, when writing a sentence, it must be an objective article based on a fact, not a subjective opinion. I always attach a reference to the sentence as evidence. As ...

  Because people are animals of communication.  People try countless times to communicate with others in the real environment they are in, and the same is true of the online environment. The reason why the online environment is good is that you can meet a variety of people who are difficult to meet in person. You can meet a myriad of people with diverse occupations that are difficult to meet in real life. In particular, Wikipedia is an online space where users gather each other's knowledge to create dictionaries, and it is one of the best environments to communicate with people. In addition, it is more meaningful because it is not just a place to gather for fun, but a space to create productive information. People think that they create a civil working environment because they are animals that help each other and communicate with each other in the process.

  I could learn about how to organize categories in Wikipedia through writing. In fact, I've been writing articles all the time, so I thought I only needed to classify articles. However, a few days ago, I published a picture of myself in a Wikipedia article, and I realized that I also categorize images. I became interested in classification after seeing more classifications than I thought. Files as well as articles and images can be classified in detail, and the method is described in detail in the article.  The most interesting thing is that the classification of articles should not overlap. For example, the article Paris does not require a "populated place in France" category if there is a "French city". I thought these two categories convey different information, but they overlap because the information "city" can infer that there will be a large population.  It was also interesting that the classification was not organized in alphabetical order, bu...

  Quality is socially shaped. Socially formed means that it can be evaluated differently depending on the country and the times, and it can continue to vary from conventional wisdom or rules of society. It is not a fixed concept.    In order to judge quality, there may be clear regulations on a subject. It may have been laid down by law. But even if not, there may be issues of tacit agreement among people.    In the case of a new law, the phrase "A committed an act of ~~, and that action was severely criticized by people" can be changed to "A committed an offence" In addition, tacit agreements can be made in various ways, including Vincent van Gogh's paintings receiving good reviews, as I wrote in my last blog post.

  Quality is subjective. Standards of quality continue to change because of the changing values and norms of the times. As exemplified in class, some artists are recognized for their artistry only after death. Conversely, something very promising now may not be recognised in the future. Let me give two examples of quality being subjective.   Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh lived a poor and unnoticed life as an artist. He was addicted to alcohol and locked up in a mental hospital. But Gogh, who lived such a tragic life, is now an indispensable master of post-Impressionism. His works were not noticed in the past, but he is now regarded as the best painter in recognition of his excellence.   Circuses using animals were once one of the entertainment venues for people. Due to the extraordinary show, the circus traveled around the world through mobile circuses. But now, are animal circuses still loved by people? As animal welfare has become a hot topic for people, dolphi...

  I'm sure my peers have had the Internet since they were born, and they've been using it easily in real life. Therefore, it is not easy to know what life was like before the Internet. However, as the Internet grows more and more advanced, there are certainly three products and industries that have decreased in demand.   First, it is the dictionary. Before the Internet service, there had to be a real dictionary book for the meaning of words and study. Despite its heavy weight, dictionaries were indispensable when studying. In Korea, it was difficult to find a house without a dictionary. However, with the spread of the Internet, we have Internet dictionaries like Wikipedia, and now we can easily find the information we want to find. A paper-book dictionary was losing its old status.   Second, the phone book. In the past, people wrote down all the phone numbers they needed or called through phone books. But now I can find out the number if I type the store or compan...

  I think Wikipedia is reliable. There are two reasons why I think so. First, the Wikipedia article contains evidence of all claims as a reference. Even a small controversy is attached to a news article to inform that it is not the author's personal opinion. I also attach a lot of references as proof of objective articles when editing Wikipedia. Second, Wikipedia articles can be modified by anyone. Even if someone intentionally wrote the error, any Wikipedia user can delete it all and correct it. Of course, even if you write down the right content, there may be cases where someone corrects the wrong content. But the content will also be corrected by another user.

Both questions are related to the weekly edit assignment.  What do you find difficult? The most difficult part is that there is no more information to add to the topic I want to fill out. For example, I like Korean idol BLACKPINK, so I wanted to help them with their information. The article was perfectly organized, but there was no information about BLACKPINK members' birth dates in the article, so I filled it in. But the information I added was erased immediately by others. I don't know if the person who deleted it is a BLACKPINK fan or not, but what's certain is that he/she is periodically revising BLACKPINK Wikipedia articles. The saddest and most difficult thing is that I don't have any more information to add to the article I want to write, and eventually I can't contribute to the article. What do you find most enjoyable? The most enjoyable thing is when I found a small part that I could fill, even though it was already a well-finished article. In a Wikipedia a...

 1. Summary The Good Faith Collaboration is a book about Wikipedia written by Joseph Michael Reagle. There are a total of eight chapters, including Wikipedia's systematic functions (such as methods for creating sophisticated content), communities, Wikipedia's success, collaborative culture, leadership on open information websites, cultural acceptance, and interpretation. It does not talk about Wikipedia's history in a nutshell, but analyzes the cause of Wikipedia's success in detail and explains how it operates. 2. Interesting Point The most interesting part of me was the “collaborative culture”. It is amazing that Wikipedia has been able to grow the most because of the collaboration of many people to achieve its goals with success. It was also interesting that Wikipedia's collaborative culture of volunteers was similar to voluntary organizations. Because Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, some critics expected Wikipedia to be ruined by intentional errors and jokes,...