#1. What do I know about Wikipedia and what do I want to learn about it?



                                                 Jeong Seo Yoon, 정서윤

A decade ago, Jimmy wales and his community found “Wikipedia”. Wikipedia is a “collaborative community” that the free sharing of one's own knowledge within a minimum of norms. And now, people all over the world find new information and share it with Wikipedia.

When I was a child, there were thick encyclopedias at my house. With the advent of Wikipedia as technology development and digital universalization, we no longer have to spend space and time searching for paper and finding a place to store them. You can even discuss one problem in several hundred languages. People with diverse cultural knowledge can communicate in one place. This will present various approaches to one problem. I believe this collective intelligence will give people the opportunity to be equal to their knowledge.

Questions about Wikipedia and the answer I found.

1.     Where does Wikipedia's server fund come from?

When I first met Wikipedia, I wondered that no banner ads or pop-ups appeared. So I wondered where the server cost of storing this enormous information comes from.

Wikipedia is run by a non-profit foundation called Wikimedia, and it does not post any ads to adhere to the principles of non-profit operations. The operating expenses are supported by donations from people. Wikipedia has more than 90 servers in three places. And these are managed online by volunteers. And according to Jimmy one of Wikipedia founder, it costs only the cost of the line and single management staff. The power of collective intelligence is amazing! Even on December 3, 2014, a donation of US$2,526,603 was collected in just one day.

>> reference link 1: Jimmy Wales at TED global 2005
https://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia/transcript?source=facebook&language=ko

2.     Why isn't Wikipedia contaminated with false information?

Now that there's more false information, how does Wikipedia solve this?

According to IBM researchers Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas, the results of tracking controversial topics such as abortion and Islam indicate that if controversial content is posted or deleted maliciously, it can be restored within two minutes. by other anonymous volunteers As a result, they are filled with content that reflects all of their positions. It is said that the average number of corrections for the many-discussed articles is more than 1000 times. It seems that some knowledge seems to indicate that it can be fluid.

My discussion point :

How do we deal with intellectual alienation from digital civilization?
A rapidly growing society like Korea has a wide gap between generations. As such, the more the technology is developed, the more disadvantage it will suffer. Sometimes it is difficult for people who do not know how to use a smartphone to get administrative help. I think the same is true of the approach of knowledge. Can we solve this problem through the collective intelligence of Wikipedia?

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