Monday, September 2, 2013

W1 Blog Topic : What I know about Wikipedia and what I want to learn about it.

When I was sophomore, I had a group assignment about Wikipedia. Wikipedia was really new to me at that time, and I had to read about Wikipedia on Wikipedia in English because it was hard to find the information on any other websites. I was pretty impressed by Wiki which anyone can edit and it would open to anyone right away. Also if I remember correctly, I like the way Wikipedia run itself by not using commercials to get financed. At the beginning, I was more like skeptical of reliability of the information which we can find on Wikipedia since anyone can write anything. My professor asked me to search more about Wikipedia and I figured later that there are system people can report errors and also there is quite a number of staff who manages overall. That’s pretty much all I remember about Wikipedia and I want to learn about the system in depth especially how it is run and I also think that the reason Wikipedia is not as popular in Korea as in other countries would be interesting.  

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