Wikiship

Wikipedia does three things the Jenkins deems important. First, it allows me to access new technology to edit and add data. Next, it accomplishes the DIY in that the I am responsible for the information I read and contribute, and I am able, if I wished to provide information in not only text but also images.

There are two opposing ideas here. One is
knowledge culture and commodity culture (136). The tension is that the commodity culture is more proprietary, and the other is not. Sites with the commodity culture will be less inclined to allow users such access for fear of losing authorship, or profits. Wikipedia is of the knowledge culture and wishes to help the readers to gain access to information. Still the site keeps strict adherence to maintaining the copyright laws, and on this point I approached the assignment with great trepidation. I half-expected Moses to call down another plague as I, a mere mortal, dared to alter a page on the Holy Web, even if my contribution consisted merely of asking copyright questions.
Jenkins appears to want me to be free from such fears. Indeed, the presence and success of Wikipedia is to show that the newer model of authorship can work, and readers can indeed contribute to knowledge without an original author’s potential loss of profits or reputation, though, undoubtedly, there would have to be adjustments for those of the commodity culture. There are promising trends with the way some media giants handle fan fiction.
With Wikipedia, I was part of a myriad of users, putting in information. I became part of what Levy through Jenkins described as “Collective Intelligence”, not the mindless organization of ants or bees, but an individual in this giant project (136).