W4. Reading assignment - Gyongmin Moon, 문경민
1) Summary
When participating in Wikipedia, following the community norm is important, because those norms have led the Wikipedia till now, and it will keep on leading it furthermore. In general, Wikipedia has five crucial rules, which is called 5 pillars; having the quality of information, neutral point of view, free content for anyone available to edit, respect and have good faiths on other Wikipedian, and finally, remembering that Wikipedia does not have a firm rule. These rules are the very basic, yet the most strong rules that have sustained the environment of Wikipedia. You need to be objective, but at the same time, be civil, have a sense of a humor or two, and also open to other ideas just like the Wikipedia itself. But because Wikipedia is open; free for anyone to edit, Wikipedia suffers from trolling such as vandalism, low quality of information is some of the articles, and having assaults from the outside community with certain purposes or perspectives. Freedom can be a good source of the community's growth, but freedom without responsibility might harm it instead. This is why maintaining the balance between the openness of the community and the closeness of the community is important. To maintain this balance, not only the admins of Wikipedia, but the whole Wikipedian who knows the importance of it, should help.
2) Learned
When doing the first 'Training for students' in Wikipedia, I learned about these five pillars. But it was a short summary of them, and while reading this document, I think I learned more about 'having faith' on others. A lot of websites are basically anonymous, no one knows who I am, and I don't know who they are. All I know is their nicknames and IP numbers. And when individuals stand behind the shield of anonymity, most of the time, they lose what is so-called humanity. Sometimes they become brave, they might act as if they are another persona, and sometimes they compel others to follow the extreme moral standard that thyself never followed. The W3 has been in our lives for about 30 years now, and nowadays almost every people know what people can become in this digital world. So, trusting; having good faith in others' actions is hard. Yet, Wikipedia still knows one simple fact that, without having faith in each other, nothing can be done here.
3) Concerns
In chapter 4, we learned about the pros and cons of openness, and the importance of balance between openness and closeness. When people have the freedom to do something, the most ideal shackles to restrain them is to make them have responsibility for their actions. But in the case of Wikipedia, that is not happening right now. The price of freedom is high, it always has been and it will forevermore. This means in contrast, without a price, freedom cannot be achieved. If Wikipedia is really trying to become a website, putting up one of its pillars: 'free content for anyone to edit', I think having this kind of problem that Wikipedia is suffering right now is a natural thing. It doesn't need to be balanced by anyone, instead, through a long period of time, the people who are abusing the openness have to understand for themselves, that what they are doing is wrong.
When participating in Wikipedia, following the community norm is important, because those norms have led the Wikipedia till now, and it will keep on leading it furthermore. In general, Wikipedia has five crucial rules, which is called 5 pillars; having the quality of information, neutral point of view, free content for anyone available to edit, respect and have good faiths on other Wikipedian, and finally, remembering that Wikipedia does not have a firm rule. These rules are the very basic, yet the most strong rules that have sustained the environment of Wikipedia. You need to be objective, but at the same time, be civil, have a sense of a humor or two, and also open to other ideas just like the Wikipedia itself. But because Wikipedia is open; free for anyone to edit, Wikipedia suffers from trolling such as vandalism, low quality of information is some of the articles, and having assaults from the outside community with certain purposes or perspectives. Freedom can be a good source of the community's growth, but freedom without responsibility might harm it instead. This is why maintaining the balance between the openness of the community and the closeness of the community is important. To maintain this balance, not only the admins of Wikipedia, but the whole Wikipedian who knows the importance of it, should help.
2) Learned
When doing the first 'Training for students' in Wikipedia, I learned about these five pillars. But it was a short summary of them, and while reading this document, I think I learned more about 'having faith' on others. A lot of websites are basically anonymous, no one knows who I am, and I don't know who they are. All I know is their nicknames and IP numbers. And when individuals stand behind the shield of anonymity, most of the time, they lose what is so-called humanity. Sometimes they become brave, they might act as if they are another persona, and sometimes they compel others to follow the extreme moral standard that thyself never followed. The W3 has been in our lives for about 30 years now, and nowadays almost every people know what people can become in this digital world. So, trusting; having good faith in others' actions is hard. Yet, Wikipedia still knows one simple fact that, without having faith in each other, nothing can be done here.
3) Concerns
In chapter 4, we learned about the pros and cons of openness, and the importance of balance between openness and closeness. When people have the freedom to do something, the most ideal shackles to restrain them is to make them have responsibility for their actions. But in the case of Wikipedia, that is not happening right now. The price of freedom is high, it always has been and it will forevermore. This means in contrast, without a price, freedom cannot be achieved. If Wikipedia is really trying to become a website, putting up one of its pillars: 'free content for anyone to edit', I think having this kind of problem that Wikipedia is suffering right now is a natural thing. It doesn't need to be balanced by anyone, instead, through a long period of time, the people who are abusing the openness have to understand for themselves, that what they are doing is wrong.
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