Week 7 - Response to Content

Kostakis (2010) writes in his article on, 'Identifying and understanding the problems of Wikipedia's peer governance: The case of inclusionists versus deletionists'. He writes that 'Wikipedia is about representations of knowledge, about unfinished artifacts in a constant process of creation and evaluation. It does not rely on hierarchical structures, but on the wisdom of the crowds for its quality control processes.' So Wikipedia is basically just an online encyclopedia where anyone, doesn't matter who they are, can write on the related page, edit and remove text that was there already. That is why some are so dubious, as although it's generally pretty accurate, there is the odd post where some 'idiot' has gone and written false information on there.

University lecturers and high school teachers have warned us and told us NOT to use Wikipedia as a source, but now there are some who say use it? Including this class' lecturer?! It's confusing to be told one thing then another. I understand that it's a great idea to steal the proper references that people have put on Wikipedia, but we're allowed to reference the actual articles now. Hmmmm. haha

Kostakis refers to Bauwens (2008) article, 'Is something fundamentally wrong with Wikipedia governance processes?' often. I looked into Bauwen's arguement, and it is just riddled with quotes from yet others. Both articles are very clear in stating that Wikipedia should be a source to reference if you so wish.
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I'm going to put the references for this one in some comments... The picture below describes what happens when I try and put the links in there. Also I had to rewrite this WHOLE post again, since it wiped it all for me :(