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이건 딴 질문인데 저는 위키피디아의 진입장벽 - 자료를 수록하는 사람 입장에서 - 이 너무 높다고 생각합니다. 저도 나름대로는 중급 정도 이용자는 된다고 보는데 참 어렵거든요. 일단 그 장벽을 넘고 첫 번째 자료만 올리고 수정할 줄 알게되면 그 다음이야 쉬울테지만요. 위키피디아의 효용과 신뢰도를 높이는 데 여러 방법이 있을테고 많은 글이 있는데 이 문제를 지적하는 글은 못본 것 같아서요. 아거님께서는 어떻게 보시는지요.

리드미님..
위키피디어에 어떤 집입 장벽이 있는지 다음에 구체적인 예를 올려주셨으면 도움이 되겠습니다. 일단 이번 와이어드지 기사에 따르면, 그리고 sandbox에 테스트해본 결과 정말 편집이 쉽더군요. 물론 테스트 도중 그 해당 문건을 다른 사람이 사용하고 있을 경우가 생기겠더군요. 물론 이건 진입장벽은 아니지요.

Someone else has changed this page since you started editing it. The upper text area contains the page text as it currently exists. Your changes are shown in the lower text area. You will have to merge your changes into the existing text. Only the text in the upper text area will be saved when you press "Save page".

제가 이해하는 범위내에서는 위키 편집(editing)에 별 어려움은 없었습니다.
심지어 sandbox에 만들어본 테스트글의 링크 [[benevolent dictator]]도 본문의 관련 문건에 연결이 되더군요. ^ ^
혹시 질문에 도움이 될까해서 Sandbox에 테스트삼아 옮겨본 Wired지 기사의 일부를 여기 옮겨봤습니다.
위키피디아의 보안체계와 관련한 와이어드 글의 일부를 옮겼습니다. 미국 태권도 연맹의 위계(hierarchy)와 비슷하다는 생각을 해 봅니다. ^ ^

It turns out that [[Wikipedia]] has an innate capacity to heal itself. As a result, woefully outnumbered vandals often give up and leave. Waht's more, making changes is so simple that who prevails often comes down to who cares more. And hardcore Wikipedians care. A lot.
Wool, a Wikipedian, logs on to Wikipedia at 6 each morning and works two hours before leaving for his day job developing education programs for a museum. When he gest back home around 6:30 pm, he hops back on Wikipedia for a few more hours. Derksen checks his watch list each morning before leaving for work at a small company that sells medical equipment on eBay. When he returns home, he'll spend a few hours just clicking on the Random Page link to see what needs to get done. It's tempting to urge people like Wool and Derken to get a life. But imagine if they instead spent their free time walking through public parks, picking up garbage. We'd call them good citizens. Still, even comitted citizens sometimes are't muscular enough to fend off determined bad guys. As Wikipedia has grown, Wales has been forced to impose some more centralized, policelike measures - to guard against "edit warriors," "point-of-view warriors," "revert warriors," and all those who have difficulty playing well with others. "We try to be as open as we can," Wales says, "but some of these people are just impossible." During last year's presidential election, Wikipedia had to lock both the George W. Bush and the John Kerry pages because of incessant vandelism and bickering. The Wikipedia front page, another target of attacks, is also protected.
If that suggests an emerging hierarchy in this bastion of egalitarian knowledge-gathering, so be it. The Wikipedia power pyramid looks like this: At the bottom are anonymous contributors, people who make a few edits and are identified only by their IP addresses. On the next level stand Wikipedia's myriad registered users around the globe, peopl such as Kvaran in New Mexico, who have chosen a screen name (he's Carptrash) and make edits under that byline. Some of the most dedicated users try to reach the next level-administrator. Wikipedia's 400 administrators, Derksen and Wool among them, can delete articels, protect pages, and block IP addresses. Above this group are bureaucrats, who can crown administrators. The most privileged bureaucrats are [[stewards]]. And above stewards are developers, 57 super-elites who can make direct changes to the Wikipedia software and database. There's also an arbitration committee that hears disputes and can ban bad users.
At the very top, with power that range far beyond those of any mere Wikipedian mortal, is Wales, known to everyone in Wiki-world as [[Jimbo]]. He can do pretty much anything he wants - from locking pages to banning people to getting rid of developers. So vast are his powers that began calling him "the [[benevolent dictator]]." But Wales bristled at that tag. So his minions assigned him a different, though no less imposing, label. "Jimbo," says Wikipedia administrator Mark Pellegrini, "is the God-King."