[Week3] English Reading in Information Sociology – Understanding Wikipedia

Blog topic : Why do you think people use Wikipedia? Why do others write for it?

There is variety of reasons for why people participate in editing on Wikipedia. As we saw the material that in our class, Wikipedia users use Wikipedia for killing time or just joyful. Or there are the people who use Wikipedia for their intellectual satisfaction like us. Even some one may use freely Wikipedia as a encyclopedia that is main purpose of Wikipedia. Today I would like to talk about why more and more people use Wikipedia.

I would like to comparative Wikipedia for market. The market was established for sharing something. In the ancient time when money didn’t came out yet, people sharing their stuff what they need each other. From at that time, market has been changed their appearance. Big mall, department store, complex markets are variety of shape of market. If we imagine other paid encyclopedia such as Britannica as a department store, we also regard Wikipedia as a flea market. They has also common part of their skill that is contain information and selling stuff but Britannica have to pay for using it ,department store is clean, fancy, neat but Wikipedia is free to use, flea market is feel comfortable, friendly.

Some more advantage of Wikipedia and flea market than Britannica and department store are makes people using Wikipedia for over decade and gave chance to improve, progressive.