User:Shuo Xiang

It's here!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Wikipedians:

And it's here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Announcing my CS 492 term-end paper: On Wikipedia — the Technology, the People, the Unfinished Work.

The original upload location,, now contains a very interesting and idiosyncratic PDF article, but I have nothing to do with it.

Thank you for all the kind help you have lent me during the paper-writing process!!!

Long live Wikipedia!!!

Shuo Xiang 22:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Micro Wikipedia Survey
Dear Wikipedians:

This survey is done as part of assignment 6 of CS 492 Computers Ethics class offered at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. This survey has received clearance from Office of Research Ethics of the University of Waterloo.

I am writing my essay for assignment 6 on the technology of Wiki, and more specifically, that of Wikipedia. In order to procure my primary source, I have turned to you, kind Wikipedians, for help. Basically I ask three simple questions below, and would appreciate it very much if you leave your responses to the three questions, along with any other comments you would like to make with respect to Wikipedia, on my User_talk:Shuo_Xiang. You may also submit your reponse to the dropbox I have created on my homepage here. This dropbox is one of my proudest creation (talking about being an antiquated geek). The front-end is written using plain, unadorned HTML (even the extension reads ".htm" instead of ".html", talking about hitting old school). The back end is coded in the C programming language (source code available here: User:Shuo_Xiang/Post.c) using the most original, most pure CGI mechanism provided at the courtesy of my school's computer science servers running on Solaris.

The questions are:

1. In your opinion, what factors made the Wikipedia project so successful?

'''2. In your opinion, what "silver bullet" does Wikipedia need in order to resolve its credibility problems? Or is it the case that a lack of credibility is a fundamental property of Wikipedia?'''

3. In your opinion, would Wikipedia emerge as the ultimate and sole encyclopedia that contains the sum of all human knowledge, overpowering Encyclopedia Britannica and driving it into obsolescence in the long run?

Thank you again for your time spent to participate in this survey! I will be publishing my fully finished essay here as my contribution to Wikipedia and remuneration for the time you put into my survey!

Shuo Xiang 04:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC)