{"id":57896,"date":"2021-06-25T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=57896"},"modified":"2021-06-24T17:15:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T21:15:15","slug":"has-wikipedia-gone-from-being-a-curse-to-the-great-miracle-of-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/has-wikipedia-gone-from-being-a-curse-to-the-great-miracle-of-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Wikipedia gone from being a curse to the great miracle of knowledge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57897\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wikipedia-editors.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wikipedia-editors.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wikipedia-editors-250x152.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/wikipedia-editors-600x364.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the things we reasonably thought turned out to be the other way around.\u00a0Perhaps tolerance is the passion of the inquisitors and ignorance is strength.\u00a0The point is that every time the media asks about Wikipedia they tend to ask the wrong questions.\u00a0Is Wikipedia reliable?\u00a0How good are Wikipedia articles?<\/p>\n<p>And here we could, in a few words, remind ourselves that that online encyclopedia that we have at our fingertips and at the price we want to pay for it turns out to be an &#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digital.csic.es\/handle\/10261\/40875\">unforeseen miracle<\/a>\u00a0&#8221; and a delicate ecosystem, but it surprises us with 20 years of resistance full of answers to questions no one had ever asked.<\/p>\n<p>Above, Wikipedia is something in the conventional background, an encyclopedia, the page that the user experiences, finds and reads.\u00a0But behind it is a process based on an innovative idea, &#8220;radical trust&#8221; that sets in motion intangible incentives for many people to create and edit.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is a content and a community.\u00a0In addition to relevant information for the network, it is a monumental experiment in the production of a certain type of knowledge, cultivated by hand, with the humility and conviction of the artisan.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Without the help of educational and cultural institutions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Wikipedia was made without the design or participation of the educational and cultural institutions that we had trusted.\u00a0While some academics tightened their bow tie, thousands of irregular, donating their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.es\/books\/about\/Excedente_cognitivo.html?id=AV1NZp3zDGwC&amp;redir_esc=y\">cognitive surplus<\/a>\u00a0, were changing the rules of encyclopedias, of learning, and of shared knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>For this exhortation we borrowed the formula that Umberto Eco devised in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gescsemiotica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kupdf.net_eco-umberto-el-publico-perjudica-a-la-television.pdf\">1974 article<\/a>\u00a0on television, in which he put us before the mirror of the individual responsibility of the viewer in the construction of a degraded television universe and advocated a guerrilla war.<\/p>\n<p>Something like that happened with Wikipedia.\u00a0If no one from the constituted power came to do it, if the copyright prevented the reuse for the common good of the knowledge that was already systematized in solvent reference works, then it would have to be started from scratch, as in the Middle Ages, even if it takes a few years.<\/p>\n<p>Total, instead of being placed in a monastery copying by hand the cultural legacy of the ancient world, one is spending a while one night in which he has not managed to meet on Tinder writing with pleasure about a subject for which he feels enthusiasm, and even then crocodile, that where I left it another will come to continue it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57898\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57898\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57898\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Wiki.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Wiki.png 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Wiki-250x79.png 250w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Wiki-600x190.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia entry in Spanish Wikipedia. Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<h4><strong>Forbidden to use Wikipedia<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The most frequent speech in teaching is summarized in \u201cprohibited to use Wikipedia\u201d.\u00a0In it are embodied all the evils of poorly performed tasks, works without bibliographic research, plagiarism, texts made of patches and a long etcetera.<\/p>\n<p>However, no teacher would be comfortable saying &#8220;forbidden to use an encyclopedia.&#8221;\u00a0Nor by self-criticizing why we teach so little about the use of adequate information sources to contextualize a topic, which is the place that general and specialized encyclopedias occupy in the food chain of the research process.<\/p>\n<p>But the beauty is on the other side, when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dialnet.unirioja.es\/servlet\/articulo?codigo=7306668\">in the framework of formal teaching activities to write and use Wikipedia are introduced<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0The educational initiatives promoted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/92\/Instructor_Basics_How_to_Use_Wikipedia_as_a_Teaching_Tool.pdf\">the Wikimedia Foundation<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wikiedu.org\/\">WikiEdu<\/a>\u00a0, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.es\/2021\/06\/04\/mejora-de-contenidos-cientificos-en-wikipedia-fundacion-madrid\/\">other organizations<\/a>\u00a0bring together this aspect of connecting formal education with the adventure of learning by doing Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>There a revealing transformation takes place.\u00a0When a group of students is commissioned to improve an article on a topic of their specialty or interest, they are placed in a real information literacy laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Here he finds sense and incentives to carry out an objective writing, careful in making statements that must be supported by quotes from reliable sources.\u00a0Because you are contributing content to a website that will be consulted in the future by thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>It is no longer an invisible classroom job, limited to the teacher&#8217;s evaluation.\u00a0It is a job with repercussions for which to take responsibility.\u00a0The strict rules of style, citation, verifiability and neutral point of view that the Wikipedian community is responsible for enforcing will apply to it.\u00a0The contents do not arise alone or isolated, but the result of an editorial dynamic sustained by people, the community.<\/p>\n<p>A suggestive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openaccess.uoc.edu\/webapps\/o2\/bitstream\/10609\/24741\/1\/AIBAR_EDULEARN2013preprint_WIKI4HE.pdf\">study, led by Eduard Aibar<\/a>\u00a0, concluded that teachers believe that their colleagues value Wikipedia negatively.\u00a0So is it that we use Wikipedia in private?\u00a0Is there a feeling of guilt and does it only come out of the closet when a prestigious member of the teaching or research team publicly assumes that Wikipedia is a source of value?<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia for years has become an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/recyt.fecyt.es\/index.php\/ThinkEPI\/article\/view\/thinkepi.2015.50\">object of research<\/a>\u00a0, a new continent from which to map its accidents, its fauna, flora and customs, and it is allowing the generation of a wide corpus of academic research from almost all areas of knowledge.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>He grew up with his back to the University<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Nobody in the upper echelons will consider that improving Wikipedia also scores in those long-awaited six-year terms of transfer, or does it?\u00a0Or that showing a biography will bring us closer to greater scientific visibility.\u00a0Wikipedia has grown up behind the back of the university, as an unrecognized son, a vigorous fruit of love.<\/p>\n<p>It is convenient that those who have specialized knowledge and are in the task of extending and sharing it get involved by contributing their ability to create a better encyclopedia and understand how and why it is done precisely like that, among all.\u00a0Knowledge is contagious, and the encyclopedia is a good source of transmission.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bios:<\/strong> Tomas Saorin is Coordinator of the degree in Information Management and digital content at the University of Murcia and Florence Claes is Professor of Multimedia Journalism at Rey Juan Carlos University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the things we reasonably thought turned out to be the other way around.\u00a0Perhaps tolerance is the passion of the inquisitors and ignorance is strength.\u00a0The point is that every time the media asks about Wikipedia they tend to ask the wrong questions.\u00a0Is Wikipedia reliable?\u00a0How good are Wikipedia articles? 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