[Week3] Blog topic : Why do you think people use Wikipedia? Why do others write for it?
Maybe people wants to share their knowledge or give a present. Some people like to give a present. Gift Economy, I would like to compare with Wikipedia. When they give a present(knowledge), some people that received the present, they will try to give present(writing articles). By using Wikipedia, people socialize. Who wouldn't like a present? So, with this circumstance people make articles automatically(?) with their will.
In my experience, I didn't know why people write for the wikipedia and use. I was not a person who use Wikipedia frquently. Almost none. Whenever I asked people question about subjects I don't know, people would say, 'Google it!' 9 people out of 10 would recommand google. At that time, I didn't know anything about wikipedia. Nobody mentioned me Wikipedia. I thought google has an encyclopedia, and that was Wikipedia. Wikipedia solved vocabularies that I'm not familiar with.
You are also directed to Wikipedia even when you use Naver as a search engine, not only Google. I think that shows Wikipedia has been spread out and becomes more popular.
ReplyDeleteI can agree with your point out about wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteOnly wikipedia users uses wikipedia alot.
It seemed that wikipedia needs bait for gathering lots of new editors!
I wasn't also familiar about Wikipedia and I didn't understand why people use it. But after I tried to use Wikipedia, I understood about that I thought. Many people want to share about information as you told it.
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