W14 blog topic: What did I learn in this course? - Yurang Wi
In this course, I learn about the two of things.
First, How Wikipedia works. Before I had taken this course, I was just one of the users of Wikipedia. I didn't know how it works, and what is collective intelligence means actually. But now, I can explain how this encyclopedia works by contributors from all around world and bring the most perfect example of collective intelligence. It is one of significant things that I has learned from this course.
Second, the doubt: Can it possible to define the absolute knowledge? Before I had participate in editing on Wikipedia, I had thought that knowledge is firmly defined by experts in each fields. Surprisingly, however, I saw experts in same fields defined same phenomenon differently. And sometimes the acknowledged encyclopedia also make controversial issue to defining word. So I got a doubt whether it is possible to define the absolute knowledge. In this sight, Wikipedia might be one of the most advanced types of encyclopedia. Any information that listed in the encyclopedia have to argue with the people who had doubt about it and persuade them. I learned the relativity of knowledge.
Above things are what I learned in this course. I may more participate in contributing to write articles on Wikipedia.
First, How Wikipedia works. Before I had taken this course, I was just one of the users of Wikipedia. I didn't know how it works, and what is collective intelligence means actually. But now, I can explain how this encyclopedia works by contributors from all around world and bring the most perfect example of collective intelligence. It is one of significant things that I has learned from this course.
Second, the doubt: Can it possible to define the absolute knowledge? Before I had participate in editing on Wikipedia, I had thought that knowledge is firmly defined by experts in each fields. Surprisingly, however, I saw experts in same fields defined same phenomenon differently. And sometimes the acknowledged encyclopedia also make controversial issue to defining word. So I got a doubt whether it is possible to define the absolute knowledge. In this sight, Wikipedia might be one of the most advanced types of encyclopedia. Any information that listed in the encyclopedia have to argue with the people who had doubt about it and persuade them. I learned the relativity of knowledge.
Above things are what I learned in this course. I may more participate in contributing to write articles on Wikipedia.
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