Monday, March 24, 2014

B5. Can we trust Wikipedia?

I want to ask first 'can I trust Wikipedia?'. My answer would be 'pretty much yes'.I remember that I said 'the more I use Wikipedia, the more I trust this encyclopedia because I could feel that it is alive with many people working on this' during last semester. I have an opinion now which is similar as last year but kind of different. I somehow think it is upon one's ability to be able to trust Wikipedia or not. If one knows how to use/navigate Wikipedia properly, Wikipedia would be really trustworthy, but if the one doesn't know how to do so, it is much more likely to have distorted information. So, I would like to encourage many people who only use Wikipedia for getting information to actually try to edit and know more about how it works so that they can distinguish good and bad information. Someone said not to use Wikipedia as the end of information, but to use this as the start of searching. I agree with that. We can definitely start searching with Wikipedia, but we shouldn't end the process in this, we need to check sources and different engines to make sure that the information in there can be trusted.

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