Sunday, October 27, 2013
W9 Blog Topic : Discuss Reagles's chapter 3-4
Wikipedia is known for the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and people think it's an open community which could be characterized by Open Transparency, Integrity, Nondiscrimination, Noninterference. However, there are people our there thinking Wikipedia is more like open culture than on open community. For me, Openness of 'open culture' itself includes more than above four of them.
Open can be defined
1. not restricted to a particular group or category of participants
2. characterized by ready accessibility and usually generous attitude
I think that open of an open community means closer to the first definition, because it sounds like an actually open physical place anyone can come and do thing whatever they want to do. But open of an open culture what I think of Wikipedia is close to the second definition. In Wikipedia, there is a collaborative culture that asks its participants to assume two postures: a stance of neutral point of view on matters of knowledge, and a stance of good faith toward one’s fellow contributors. I think that's what we should have to have open culture in our Wikipedia world.
Having Wikipedia already open to people, it is our responsibility to reach the second definition of open culture and keep it ideally. We should be not only neutral, but also patient, civil, and be humorous.
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Reach to the another defintion of 'open' is one of the important things what we have to do.
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