W15 .what is the future of wikipedia? will it be exist in 20 years? Yun-Jin Kim
Like everything
does, if there’s a Start, there’s an End
Wikipedia, in 20
years, might be existing no more, because these days, world changes in fast.
Devices are changing in a year and fast. Media are based on devices so that changing
device means media consumption could be changed. Wikipedia will face to the End
But not right
now. It’ll be existing several years but still has a flaw. It must improve its mobile
web. Writing in Wikipedia has trouble with moblie device. But these days everyone
has mobile. Especially in South Korea. If Wikipedia doesn’t improve their mobile
web, it would go to the end soon.
To survive for 20, 50 years, it needs to be simple and short. But wikipedia has their own regulation that everything has their own references. So this regulation makes wikipedia trustful but also long and boring.
It seems that surviving for 20 years might be hard. But wikipedia is a very meaningful web site in online history.
I agree with you, I think Wikipedia has to adapt itself for the use on smartphones. Indeed, there is a mobile app, but I think it is not very used nowadays, because it is easier to modify and to read articles from his computer. So, Wikipedia should improve its mobile app and be more competitive in this sense.
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