W12. Discuss Reagle's Chapters 6
1. Summary Ideals and reality always conflict. We always dream of a world like utopia, but the real world never becomes utopia. The reason is that there are a lot of variables (personality, culture, social characteristics) that exist in reality. The same is true of a small world called Wikipedia. While Wikipedia has a clear, open, civilized, and equitable encyclopedia as its ideal, this value necessarily results in a dispute when many people are involved. What is needed for this is the 'benevolent dictator'. No matter how open the community, you need someone to control the minimum dispute. They usually speak softly to people, relax the mood through humor, and in the worst case lock out articles or disputes. Since Wikipedia was founded, Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales are the most influential people. In a nutshell, Sanger was a strong executive, and Wales was a more mild executive. Sanger left Wikipedia, but in fact it does not make sense to say that either of them is better. ...
I think that the sense of belonging to an organization can guide our willingness to improve this page. I experienced it in my choice of articles for my first edits. Effectively, I have chosen activities I like or institutions related to my life.
ReplyDeleteIt represents something that we know well so it is easier to talk about and you can be glad to share it with others. You can feel pride: citizen of a country, member of a club, student of a university, etc.
Nevertheless, this cannot be the unique source of motivation for a person to improve an article. Some people have other knowledge than their experiences: the theoretical knowledge acquired during their studies. The more the people specialize in a field, the more they can add elements that did not appear before on Wikipedia.