W3. Reading Chapter 2 / Juhee Cha

Wikipedia's goal is to give everyone on the planet the freedom to share all knowledge of the world in the language they choose, and to modify, adapt, reuse, and redistribute as they please. And as time goes by, this mission will be achieved. The tremendous strength of the Web is its hypertextual and distributed features, but the Wikipedia itself is not distributed this way. Instead, many authors can collaborate on a single document stored in a central database that can easily manage, format, and express styles.
If you go to Wikipedia's homepage, you can see Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, German, and so on. There are many different languages. However, English is the language that has an overwhelming amount of information. And the fewest languages are Korean. I thought this was the reason why I didn't trust Wikipedia. Compared to other language-speaking countries, Korea thought Wikipedia was not Perhaps we should play a role as an information producer.
The Wikipedia encyclopedia is 'free to give, modify, adapt, reuse, and redistribute all knowledge of the world to everyone on the planet in the language of their choice.' Do you agree with this sentence?

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  1. Dayoung Ryu 류다영April 5, 2020 at 10:22 AM

    Well, I cannot agree anymore, but still it is not familiar to us. (This 'us' means Korean.) I don't know why, but I can only guess. We give much power to official media, such as TV, magazines, and news. Sometimes we depend on some experts who we believe smarter than us. It is not a special situation. I think this is the reason why Wikipedia is not so powerful in Korea.

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