WK 4.2 Reading The puzzle of openness - Hanane Ben Abdeslam

The main idea behind an encyclopedia is to give the opportunity and capability to anyone who wants to gain access to information, with the desire to learn from it. A long time ago an encyclopedia only became possible with universal access to its service. However, Wikipedia opened in 2000 with the purpose to give free and open sources to the world. But since Wikipedia is grown into the most used web search, it has advantages and disadvantages, which made people disagree with each other. Wikipedia’s purpose is to be the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. But what does ‘openness’ and ‘anyone’ mean? Anyone is mostly reverting to community, a group of independent people who participate together in discussion and decision making and who share certain practices, in this case, editing on the same Wikipedia article. Feeling free to edit on the same article is a meaning of open content, which provides content that is available under licenses like those that satisfy the “Open Source Definition”. It makes the processes, rules, and their rationales available.

What is new to me, is to find out that the openness is critical to understanding the moral in which many members view their participation. Each of these characteristics is explored as to identify the context and values inherent in discussions by the community about itself.

Before discussing anonymity, blocking, and openness, some background information is in order. Every edit to Wikipedia is captured and can be reviewed on the article’s history page. So, you’d probably think that Wikipedia has their system secured, but still there are trolls using Wikipedia to lash some fake information. How do you think Wikipedia could prevent this?

Hanane Ben Abdeslam

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