Week 2 Discuss the readings - Kwon Hyunji(권현지)

 1. Summary

It tells the story of Wikipedia, which is being created by the participation of people allover the world as an online encyclopedia. Wikipedia claims to be run on good faith. Although it also serves as an online encyclopedia, it is a place where people can participate and cooperate with knowledge, and it plays a very important role in society as well as simply conveying knowledge. Cooperation is particularly emphasized here. Anyone can be an editor in the world, and a variety of people become the editors. This action results from an action based on simple goodwill to share the knowledge they know. As above, Wikipedia, created by acting with a good heart regardless of one's own interests, such as economic benefits, provides people with the benefit of social knowledge.


2. Interesting Point

The most memorable point was that "Good Faith" was the core of the collaboration. It was surprising that Wikipedia's operation was maintained by a culture of collaboration based on trust and goodwill among contributors participating in Wikipedia's editing. It shows that collective intelligence is positively exercised despite anonymity because trust is created only because it contributes to Wikipedia together. Without mutual trust, good information would not be able to gather in one place. In addition, the fact that numerous people voluntarily participated on the Internet to create an encyclopedia containing a high level of information was also a sign of collective intelligence. I thought that people's interest and participation in society was that diverse people were mixed to create information to convey to another person.


3. Discussion

What kind of effort does it take for goodwill to be preserved online? 

What are some ways to regulate anonymity because it exists online so people can hide it and misbehave it?


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