Blogging through Wikipedia (2020)

When we work on Wikipedia, there is often Harassment. It bullies Wikipedia users in many ways. Continue to follow or send messages to the user. I also received 2 emails. I ignored it. Because I knew it was Harassment. My professor announced us some IDs. So I've already known the information about harassment in advance and been paying attention to their movements. Wikipedia is a free space open to everyone. Therefore trolls could be everywhere in Wikipedia. We must know how to distinguish such trolls from normal users, and be careful not to be harmed by them.

Summary This reading is about categorization. When we write articles on Wikipedia, we can use categories to guide people who read. Categories help you find information easily within an article. You need to know how to create a category to set it up. Categorizes are important for Wikipedia users to find relevant article they wanted. Interesting/Learned I found out that a category was a miniature of an article and realized that it was really important. Discuss How many categories on Wikipedia?

Summary This article explains how Wikipedia can develop further. Wikipedia has a lot of comprehensive writing, but there are also many stump writing. We can further develop these stump writing. And we can also develop articles by using reliable and accurate references, and by using a variety of image materials with clear copyrights.  To develop stump writing, we may be able to find a solution in Wikipedia of other countries, where local information as well as articles in the English version of Wikipedia can be obtained.  Various links can be inserted into the completed article to make the article richer. And you can complete an article by examining various errors, such as typos. Interesting/Learned I learned how to enrich Wikipedia articles.  And I could think about getting detailed information from Wikipedia in other countries. Discuss Can we issue the article which has only a short stub?

Summary Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization enabling sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge through the provision of free legal tools.  Creative Commons is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or legal services. CC is similar to a self-help service that offers free, form-based legal documents for others to use. Moreover Creative Commons not only  provides copyright licenses  but also offers other legal and technical tools that also facilitate sharing and discovery of creative works. Interesting/Learned I was surprised and grateful that CC had a good influence on the expansion and development of creations on the Internet. I've never known there is great way to use reused contents legally with cc. Discuss Is there any other organization or community which provides legal service like CC?

The Internet has made many changes in our daily lives. It brought about many changes, especially in cultural life. In the past, I had to go to a concert hall and listen to music or watch movies. However, the development of the Internet has allowed us to enjoy music and movies wherever we want.

Summary Remix culture can be found in many areas of communication. Lawrence Lessig covered 'only read' and 'read/write' in his book. The former refers to reading content. And the latter means that the existing content is revised or reproduced by others.  The representative content of 'Read/Write' is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a case where content is gathered and developed by others. These reproducible contents include user-generated content. Typically, these memes are indispensable in the Internet life of today's world. However, there is also a copyright issue for these played contents. People want to solve these strict copyright problems. This is because these reproducible contents can be a new creation, and there are cases where today's teenagers become criminals by copyright. Interesting/Learned The most interesting part was that students could be legally punished for content reproduction activities. I thought there would be no legal sanction because...

Summary This is about Wikipedia in our culture. And sometimes Wikipedia becomes a culture itself.  References to w ikipedia in western culture  have increased. There is a   neologism  "wikiality" by   Stephen Colbert   which means that  a phenomenon in which truth is determined by people's consent.  And  Wikipedia is not always referenced in the same way,  Wikipedia is mentioned as a source in various contexts. For example, it is used  as comedic material,  entertainment information source, and so on.  Interesting/learned 'Wikiality' is most interesting part for me in this reading category. Stephen Colbert  announced this phenomenon "Wikiality," which is "a reality where anyone can change an item and it becomes true if many people agree." He declared U.S. President Warren Harding a "hidden black president" and changed Wiki's description of him.  I read another example of 'Wikiality'. One day, student f...

Summary Every article on Wikipedia should be based on reliable sources. Such as article, book, journal, and so on.  Such sources should also consider some conditions for use in Wiki pedia. They are its context and age.  Wikipedia is a space created voluntarily by citizens, so there are many restrictions on the use of sources.  For example, UGC(user generated content), e-commerce sources, self-published and questionable sources and so on.  Interesting/learned I want to talk a story about my resent editing. I did wrong editing on last weekly 10 editing. I thought that I do not need to  add references on the new words that I added on the article I'd choose to edit. So I just add some information about the article and not adding any reference. By doing so, someone who work for Wikipedia voluntarily came to my talk page and left some messages. I was startled a bit and realized that I'd been doing wrong things. I was  embarrassed. Through this experience...

This book  contains everything about how Wikipedia has been going so far.  Including systems of website and collaboration process with each other. I have read some parts of the book about Wikipedia so far. I had thought Wikipedia was just a normal encyclopedia like others. But I was wrong. It was not a normal encyclopedia. It is exactly 'the collective intelligence'. And it is combination with people who are from all over the world. So it could be said Wikipedia is the cultural combination too. Therefore there are all kinds of people in editing information on Wikipedia. So there must be several controversies by being together. For example, some people who do not agree with my opinion. So the information that I add on Wikipedia could be deleted by them. In addition to this, there could be a malicious person who wants to spoil the environment of Wikipedia. Because of these people there are always crisis that couldn't even expected. But there are also people who have good fai...

Summary There are not always agreements in Wikipedia because it is run together by many people. And collaborative things don't always have accuracy in itself. In my case alone, there are always people who oppose and reject what I do alone and what I suggest. In addition, it is sure that there are more denial by critics when running Wikipedia since more than thousands of people participate and make the 'Wikipedia world' together. Not only Wikipedia, but every community and everything in the world can not always be agreed. There are always opposing and rejecting opinions. So, one of the best ways that Wikipedia can develop further is to humbly accept the denials and consider those negative opinions. Doing so would make it a better and even more developed Wikipedia. Learned As I thought, Wikipedia is an openness encyclopedia that anyone can participate in, so there are many opinions and many of them refuse Wikipedia's. I think  It can't be helped. . But I think W...

Summary Wikipedia is run by many people, many communities. One of the key operational policies is the consensus policy. In Wikipedia, there is a lot of discussion and a forum for reaching consensus.  An agreement does not mean unanimous, but it is through the majority of opinions, so those who oppose the opinions or topics should respect results of the debate(by poll..). In the process of reaching an agreement, misinformation from the outside and vicious bothering from the inside can be a threat to Wikipedia's operation. We need a manager to prevent this. In Wikipedia, which features this manager openness, it may seem like a dictator. However, openness is a good condition for various evils, so the more benevolent dictator is needed under these conditions. Interesting I really did not know that there is manager(a.k.a.dictator) in Wikipedia. I just thought that Wikipedia is always free and under freedom. But it was partially wrong. It is also manged by authorities and we who u...

Summary Wikipedia has rules that those people should follow in the process it is run by many volunteers around the world. Those are five pillars. The first is that anyone can edit Wikipedia, the second is to take a step back and think and respect people with different ideas and opinions, the third is to take a neutral view (NPOV), the fourth is to record proven quality information, and the last fifth is that Wikipedia has no strict rules. Although not included in the rules here, citizenship and humor in Wikipedia are also good factors when Wikipedia is equipped  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of cooperation, so it is important for people in Wikipedia to respect and embrace each other. Always good faith is primary thing in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a symbol of freedom for people around the world to share information without any sanctions. In other words, Wikipedia represents openness. However, too much openness can cause many problems.  Therefore, the balance between openness an...

Summary The reading is talking about the efforts and history that Wikipedia has been written to create. The efforts and actions of many people, including Otlet and Jimmy Wales, have created today's Wikipedia. Wikipedia is also a product of technology.  Networks, computers, and so on are essential for Wikipedia to store vast amounts of information without the effort of conventional paper dictionaries.  Wikipedia has continued to develop with a lot of effort. And I worried a lot for poor children all over the world who couldn't even buy an encyclopedia Britannica.  And ultimately, Wikipedia allows people all over the world to edit and share information in their own language. This is essential in the international world. And through the internet connection, we can communicate with each other and let them know their own things. Interesting What was interesting about this article is the history of Wikipedia. I thought Wikipedia was just an Internet encyclopedia that came...

Summary Those readings are about the book about Wikipedia and Wikipedia itself. And those readings contain the process in which the author of the book made the book. Wikipedia has not got much attention for quite a long time from the start.  Such Wikipedia is now the best collaborative encyclopedia with the enormous efforts of many scholars and people. Now people won't be able to solve curiosity without Wikipedia. To understand this rise of Wikipedia, contributions from various disciplines are needed. But what is needed most is ethnographies. In addition, there are many restrictions in the process of other books being published and read. However, Wikipedia is an open source and really helpful to anyone who accesses to it. Interesting I was interested in there are some people who really have interests about Wikipedia and ended up published a book which is all about how Wikipedia became today's one of top encyclopedias. Discussion or question I wonder about deep histor...

Summary  This reading from Wikipedia describes the sources to be used in the data before editing any material in Wikipedia. The definition of a source and the type of sources are described by dividing them into reliable and pretty unreliable ones. First, there are the definitions of source and published, and it says that their context and age are important. Then several types of sources are listed and explained. The source types include scholarship, news organizations, vender and e-commerce sources and biased or open sources. In addition to these available reliable sources above, the questionable sources and their own published sources are inappropriate to use when editing the data. Examples of these questionable sources are sponsored content, and examples of self-published sources are user-generated content. The following paragraph describes reliability in some specific contexts. Various specific contexts are introduced as examples. When bringing the sources from the co...

The reason why I am taking this course 'Collective Intelligence' is that I just wonder about Wikipedia. I usually use Google when I need to search about something and also get much information from Wikipedia. Although I really enjoy using Wikipedia, I don't have any information about 'Wikipedia'. Actually, I didn't even know I could edit the information myself until I applied for taking this course. So through this course, I want to get a lot of knowledge about Wikipedia and collective intelligence, the main element in which Wikipedia operate. In addition, I am a fourth grade student now preparing to find a job. So I want to have new knowledge and my own new ability through this course. I also think the society is always run by collective intelligence and uses collective intelligence to solve many problems. So I think I need to learn more about collective intelligence.