Tuesday, April 8, 2014
W6. Can we trust Wikipedia?
I think we can trust Wikipedia when we have many conformable sources on Wikipedia articles. As we learned in class, Wikipedia is not perfect and complete. The information on Wikipedia can be changed and can be discussed anytime, and maybe it will happen forever. This aspect of Wikipedia is positive, but it also can be a negative side of Wikipedia. The purpose of all information on Wikipedia is not to suggest "truth", so Wikipedia can have personal opinions and bias. The sources that are added on articles are for just verifiability, not for neutrality. So as there is a saying that "Wikipedia is a good place to start, but a bad place to finish.", we must not just accept the information on Wikipedia. To trust Wikipedia, we have to check whether the references on articles are reliable or not, also we should try to distinguish facts from opinions.
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