Encyclopedic Anxiety (week 5) : Jang Eun Seok

 This blog post focuses errors that occur during the process of editing Wikipedia and the "intellectual laziness" of those who accept such information without recognizing these flaws. Accordingly, it demands that those who edit Wikipedia provide accurate references, while asserting that users must be able to exercise "critical judgment" when utilizing the information they find.

 The content of this blog aligns with several points our professor has emphasized throughout the semester. I believe we need to think deeply, as this post suggests, about which references are appropriate and trustworthy.

Therefore, for this week's discussion, I think it would be worthwhile to exchange our opinions on what constitutes a reliable and appropriate reference, and what can be considered authoritative or public in nature.

Comments

  1. Nguyen Duc DuyApril 12, 2026 at 12:37 AM

    Your post highlights an important issue about errors in Wikipedia and the “intellectual laziness” of users who accept information without questioning it. I agree that both editors and readers share responsibility: editors need to provide reliable references, and users should evaluate sources carefully. Your connection to what we learned in class about critical thinking and trustworthy sources is also very clear and relevant.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Introduction to the blog

 This blog is a digital forum where students from Collective Intelligence in Practice: Understanding Wikipedia at the Hanyang University in Korea (2026) will discuss their weekly readings and activities. Each week you are expected to post a blog post on our blog and make a comment on another student's post. You can do so on one of the following three topics: a) You can blog about the readings for the next week. As you are expected to do the assigned readings FOR the lectures they are assigned to, you are expected to post your blog and comments BEFORE that lecture. An ideal commentary should be about half a page in length (~200 words), divided into three clearly labeled sections in which you: 1) summarize in your own words of materials you read; 2) mention any new, interesting, or unusual items learned; 3) identify at least one question, concern, or discussion angle that is either problematic in some respect or could have been elaborated more. This question is likely to be...
Read more

WEEK2— WANG SIWEN

During this week, I made 15 edits on Wikipedia and also created a new personal sandbox. Most of my edits focused on adding new content and translating information between different language versions of articles. Through this process, I tried to make the content clearer and more accessible to readers from different language backgrounds. In addition, I created a new sandbox to practice editing and organize my ideas before publishing them on the main article pages. The sandbox allowed me to test formatting and translation structures more carefully, which helped me avoid mistakes in public articles. This week’s editing experience helped me understand that translation on Wikipedia is not simply changing words from one language to another. It also requires attention to accuracy, context, and neutrality so that the information remains reliable and consistent with Wikipedia’s standards. Overall, this week’s work helped me improve my editing and translation skills, and it also gave me a deeper ...
Read more

WEEK2 ——edits on Wikipedia

During this week, I made several edits on Wikipedia. My main work was adding citations to some sentences that lacked sources in order to improve the reliability of the article content. For example, I added citations from gaming media websites for descriptions of the influence of characters in the Resident Evil series, and also supplemented official sources for the feature introduction of the Origin platform. These edits can be seen in my Wikipedia contributions history. User contributions for Wjyy1212 - Wikipedia  While editing these pages, I learned about some content I hadn't noticed before. For instance, how digital gaming platforms like Origin operate—players no longer need physical discs after purchasing a game but can download it directly through their account. This reflects the development trend in the gaming industry from physical distribution to digital distribution.In addition, the influence of game characters should not be underestimated.  I also have questions I wo...
Read more