Week 1-2 | Wikipedia:Reliable sources | Kim Seon Woo

1) Summary

 The main feature of the key encyclopedia is that anyone can participate in editing and management. Openness is one of the greatest features of Wikipedia, and in principle, users can create and edit almost any document.

 At the same time, however, these strengths are also weak points that are vulnerable to the damage of malicious documents or the inaccurate contents. To compensate for this weakness, the Wikipedia community has established editing rules and regulates the creation and editing of some documents. English Wikipedia requires a login to edit documents of high public interest, and German Wikipedia allows only logged in users to edit all documents.

 Wikipedia's documents are constantly being revised by someone. Wikipedia's editing system, MediaWiki, allows users to review document modifications in a variety of ways. Users can check the history of a document to see who modified what and when.
 If the change is a malicious document corruption, the user can easily reverse it. In addition, the user can easily grasp changes to the document through functions such as "recent changes" and "order document list" provided by the system. These features help Wikipedia protect documents against vandalism.

2) Interesting points / New learning points

 I thought Wikipedia was simply an encyclopedia, but I didn't know it was a platform to argue with. In the process, I think that it is a democracy and a source of the power of collective intelligence.

3) Discussion

How can I improve the reliability of Wikipedia?

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