[Week4] English Reading in Information Sociology – Understanding Wikipedia

1. summarize in your own words of materials you read

- The common goal of making enyclopedia is try to solve the problem of that what we called jig-saw puzzle and bring all the scattered and ineffective mental wealth of our world into something like a common understanding.

- In this reason, every encyclopedia remains open to corrective criticism. By doing so we can makes neutral point of view.

2. Mention of any new, interesting,  or unusual items learned

- Before the birth of Wikipedia, there are many try to make encylcopidia such as otlet’s permanent encyclopedia/ Wells’s World Brain/ Bush’s memex/ Nelson’s xanadu/ Project Gutenberg /  Interpedia project / Nupedia / GNUPedia.

- The specific terms that “realization of the universal encyclopedic vision” is regarded as success of wikipedia. We usually talk about vison, blueprint, plan, etc which is just remained.However Wikipedia try to aquire that and finally they did it. That point is compulsory required point to us including all kinds of company or any other kinds of group.

3.  Question, concern, Discussion angle

- According to chapter 2, we can know that there are also many encyclopedia whther concrete figure or not and Wikipedia is final stage of try to make encyclopedia for human being. In this point, we can debate “Is wikipedia reach to higher level of encyclopeida or is there any more factor, direction of improvement to high quality encyclopedia?