Reading 3: ZENG WANTING

1）Summarize of metirals

At the heart of Wikipedia collaboration are two complementary postures: "neutral point of view" (NPOV) and integrity. An understanding of neutrality and integrity could serve as a rebuttal to Wikipedia's favorite irony, also known as its Zeroeth law: While it may work well in practice, it will never work in theory. It's called a collaborative culture.

To further explain the meaning of collaboration or culture, one can find many different answers. However, in the article, the author believes that culture is "the way of life of a nation", a system of "meaning creation" containing values, through which a community understands and acts, including its own maintenance and reproduction. Similarly, collaboration can be an equally provocative term that provokes debate, for example, about coordination or the difference between collaboration and collaboration. In addition, collaboration stands for other related concepts, such as dispute resolution, conflict management, and interdependent decision making. The humorous description of Wikipedia as an "engine of debate" is as wrong as the depiction of social relationships as internal conflict. Conflict is not necessarily a bad thing. Wikipedia is like what Steven Weber described as free and open source software community (FOSS).：The open source software process is not a chaotic free-for-all in which everyone has equal power and influence. And is certainly not an idyllic community of like-minded friends in which consensus reigns and agreement is easy. In fact, conflict is not unusual in this community; it’s endemic and inherent to the open source process. 

In many traditional projects and organizations, documentation of organizational culture and processes (i.e., materialization) is often clearly at odds with actual practice. But wikis can change that. Wikis were born to advocate changes in the way application requirements are perceived (as patterns) and met (agile) in software development. Instead of seeing each new task as a new problem to solve, it is believed that experience can be distilled into a set of shared design patterns.

 

2）Something interesting I learned

 The article describes wiki-culture as a kind of social experiment, which is interesting and exciting, but sometimes hard to understand. Through this reading article, I have learned that Wikipedia editors are as diverse as the people we meet in life, sometimes normal and sometimes unexpected.

 

3）My question

 Because Wiki is a collaborative cultural community, it is inevitable that there will be some malicious and disruptive users. What can we do to fix this situation as much as possible?