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Wikipedia Reflection Report

This is the week 7 of the quarter. I have been using Wikipedia a lot and getting used to knowing the efficiency and the drawback of the Wikipedia education. At the beginning of the class, when the professor let us use Wikipedia education to go through the course content. I was confused and thinking about how to use Wikipedia education. Because before i was searching Wikipedia, it gave me the knowledge about what i want , but now i have the ability to help Wikipedia to improve the stub article , and use my own power to add links or added contents. For my WIKI assignments, I chose the article basketball in China to make the improvement , because basketball is becoming more and more popular in China and the government decided to spend lots of money to build the environment of basketball players. For example, the NBA will send the team to play preseason games in China every year and make connections with the Chinese investor. Nowadays, China is becoming the biggest market overseas and the basketball environment is becoming better and better.

After I decided to choose the Basketball in China stub website, I was curious why this page is so poor and does not have any information related to basketball in China. Because Chinese government spent lots of money to build the environment for basketball players, lots of famous athletes like Curry , James or Kobe will visit China every year for business purposes. So I think the WIKI should have perfect content to introduce basketball in China. According to Wikipedia, the good article should meet a core set of editorial standards but is not featured article quality. Good articles meet the good article criteria, passing through the good article nomination process successfully. When professor Salt told me you can search the other countries basketball topic to get the hint on how to improve your article. So I did research on basketball in Greece. It gives me perfect content on how to improve my article, because basketball in Greece is perfect. It gives me lots of ideas to improve my article. But it also made me wonder why nobody wanted to add the content for basketball in China. I think it’s related to the Norms and Values, because the Normative behaviors or norms are:•Rules Or Directives.•Socially acceptable or appropriate behaviors.•What members of an online community should be doing. The WIKI did not follow those rules and gave the poor content about basketball in China. As we know, China has 1.5 billions people in the world , Greece only has 10.74 millions. But it gives Greece a brief content to introduce their basketball. I think the WIKI are afraid of the political controversies between China and US, and they failed to accept their Norms and Values. After the Daryl Morey scandal about the Hong Kong affairs, the WIKI still did not report that content and I added it to my article. Because this scandal is hurting the relationship between the Chinese fans and the NBA league. The NBA league will lose 20 billion due to this scandal.

When I started editing my article, I learned that finding sources is easy on Wikipedia. I am making lots of changes for my article and added the content to my article. Honestly Wikipedia has lots of articles related to basketball in China. I found all of my research content on Wikipedia, but nobody wraps up them together. When I start work on my article, I just simply wrap up all the resources that I need for my article , adding some pictures about my topic and giving the explanation. I have done lots of research to improve my article and compare all the resources to find which one is the most appropriate. When I started to think about connecting the Wikipedia assignment with my course content, I found that the newcomers are related to my topic and assignment. The newcomers means Attracting the “right” people:1.Recruitment– How to effectively advertise for new members.2.Selection– How to get the “right” people to self-select or how to “screen” newusers.Integrating and supporting people who show up:3.Protection– How to protect communities from harmful behavior by newcomers.4.Socialization– How to teach newcomers how to behave in ways that are appropriate or normative.5.Retention– How to foster newcomers’ fragile connections to a community. The newcomers states that welcome all the outside stuff, such as the Japanese government in 1890 , they all welcome all of the western stuff to let them become stronger , they know they need newcomers to upgrade their society. I think this is a great example for WIKI, because you can add the content outside of the country. Like I searched for some content in Chinese website, the WIKI also welcomes external sources outside of the US. In conclusion, I think the good thing about Wikipedia is that you can add the link by yourself. For my personal experience, I think the WIKI gives you a way to improve the article that people do not know. For example, if someone wants to know basketball in China , they will see my article and know the history and best player in China. This gives us a way to improve the things that we know. I think WIKI helps us to learn how to connect with each other.