Sunday, November 17, 2013

W9

For wikipedia's openness, there is a claim in its motto : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that 'anyone' can edit. People wonder what 'anyone' actually mean.
According to the article, it is saying "Wikipedia is free and open, but restricts both freedom and openness where they interfere with creating an encyclopedia. Accordingly, Wikipedia is not a forum for unregulated free speech. The fact that Wikipedia is an open, self-governing project does not mean that any part of its purpose is to explore the viability of anarchistic communities. Our purpose is to build an encyclopedia, not to test the limits of anarchism."
For Neutral point of view, the wikis (article editing people in Wikipedia) are expeted to have a neutral point of view. It is not a debating place, it is an encyclopedia people make altogether. To get this transparency view, the editors use talk page. I have an experience also about Bab burger. I thought it is nice to edit as a new term of burger, however some people thought I am making some commercial advertisement and it is simillar to rice burger. We have been through a discussion and decieded to put bab burger as rice burger. If I do not have any will to have commercial edits, I found that some might think in different way such as bab burger and the beautiful store editing. Our team went through tough times for editing Beautiful store. It was hard to persuade and try to explain it is non-profit company and finally it worked! also got a barn star. To write in neutral point of view is important, but it is also important to tell other people and learn how to explain the article what I am editing is non-commercial and trying to wirte in neutral point of view. Even though it is late to do this assignment, if anyone in this class have an experience like I had, would like to share and think about which are not allowed(?) to write about. For example, the wikis thought Beautiful store is not allowed(?) to edit because they thought it is a commercial. How do you all think?

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