W12. Discuss Reagle's chapter 6 - Yeonju Heo

1. Summary

   This chapter talks about the leadership of Wikipedia. In the open community Wikipedia, a respected author will have leadership. In open communities, such leadership is primarily owned by the founder of the community. It can be seen from Wikipedia that Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales were the most influential people in Wikipedia. In addition, the initial author of the content as well as the community can become a leader.
   Wikipedia considers egalitarianism to the administration. But that does not mean there is no leader. The biggest feature of Wikipedia is that most people browsing Wikipedia can edit it. People edit articles by following Wikipedia's policies. People who log in to the account can have their own user page. A well-respected log-in user will be able to exercise unofficial permissions. Skilled users can also act as administrators using additional functions. That does not mean they are given a tremendous amount of special authority. Administrators are very similar to regular users.
   The important thing is that the administrator is not a trophy. They can effectively mediate or resolve disputes and improve the quality of the articles. But administrator should not act like a police officer or a judge.
   Wikipedia considers the collaborative culture of goodwill, equality, and openness as important values. But formed by authorial leadership. An informal benevolent dictator in Wikipedia softens the atmosphere of Wikipedia, mediates disputes, and protects Wikipedia from harmful things.
 

2. Intersting point

   There have been many discussions about Wikipedia's collaboration, community, and openness, but it was the first time I ever heard about leadership. A Wikipedia leader is a leader, but he does not have the full power of a leader. They merely participate more actively in mediating disputes and improving articles than ordinary users. I accepted it like this. 'Anyone with will and integrity can become a leader in Wikipedia.' I thought a huge site like Wikipedia would be difficult without users' collaboration. I got answers through today 's chapter. The goodwill editor of Wikipedia, among them the leaders who work harder for Wikipedia, grew Wikipedia. I am going to edit it harder so that I become a leader and administrator of Wikipedia.
 

3. Discussion

   Users of Wikipedia work for Wikipedia, but they do not make money. It would be the same for some Wikipedia administrators. Administrators work for Wikipedia more than ordinary users. They devote a lot of time to Wikipedia without receiving money. So can psychological and mental rewards make them keep working?

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  1. 안지영June 8, 2018 at 3:21 AM

    I think this is very interesting question. And I think psychological and mental rewards make them keep working. Just like Wikipedia users do, I think they could feel some satisfaction from their working. For example, they could think they are participating in collective intelligence for non-profit. And this could make them proud of themselves. So I think they could participate in advertising without paid because of just psychological rewards.

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