[Week9] Discuss Reagle’s chapters 3-4
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we already learned about neutral point of view and tried to get a neutral point by ourselves during the class. It was not easy to get neutral point of view but I think it is important on Wikipedia. Many people use Wikipedia, discuss about many issues, collaborate many articles and so on. As we learn before, Wikipedia 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'm still difficult to get a neutral point of view on the internet but I 'm trying to write an article through the neutral point of view, I think if someone want to participate to edit Wikipedia, he or she try to get neutral point of view because it's encyclopedia and many people use it, get to know a new fact and collaborate with other people all over the world. Also, if people don't have a faith to others, that can not have a collaborative working because they don't believe who write a lie or the truth. So I think if Wikipedia contributors have the faith to other users when they edit an article, it will make a good article. As we saw this chapter, A productive contributor who cannot collaborate is not a productive contributor.
I think, keeping the neutral point of in Wikipedia is really important and people, especially Wikipedians value it so much. That's why Wiki PR has become such a big issue.
ReplyDeleteI think so. Actually I didn't understand why Wiki PR was a big issue but after I learn about neutral point of view, I could understand about it. If someone pay money to editor to promote something, he or she edit more beneficial about it. So it break the law on Wikipedia.
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