W8. Reliability of Wikipedia and reliable sources / Dayoung Ryu 류다영



Reliability of Wikipedia and reliable sources 


In my case, I have thought that Wikipedia is an international webpage that people gather information before I attend Collective intelligence class. Because Wikipedia is the first website I can see if I search anything in Google, and there are millions of articles. 

However, Wikipedia is more than I thought. Wikipedia recommend taking articles cites from official journal, expert interview, and any reliable source (we can see the reliablesources page to see some guideline) and even if wrong article is updated, anonymous user can fix it. It helps Wikipedia keeps its reliability.

According to PCpro magazine in 2007, it has asked for experts to analysis few article samples, including Wikipedia’s sample, and the result showed that Wikipedia’s sample has less error than other encyclopedias’ samples. Also, Trent Univ. library in Ontario support that Wikipedia has excellent coverage of technical topics despite errors and prejudice in Wikipedia.
In journalism, people prevent using Wikipedia for any article, and a journal in 2008 suggested that Wikipedia articles have about 80% of reliability while other encyclopedias have 96-95% of reliability.
I still use Korean Wikipedia as well, and share Wikipedia information, but not use it for academic reports. I do not know why it is avoided for academic activities, but I guess that making changeable source (whether it changes badly or not) as a supportive evidence for any theory and opinion could be dangerous. It is a different problem with how reliable source Wikipedia uses. It is about persistence of information.

What kind of technology needs to be asked if we want to use Wikipedia for reliable source as encyclopedia, journals, and papers?

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  1. Juhee ChaMay 10, 2020 at 1:05 AM

    I also do not use Wikipedia itself for academic activities. However, I thought that Wikipedia was making a lot of efforts for reliability through this class, and that the technology itself was appropriate to increase reliability. To use Wikipedia's information, I re-access the quotes I want to use and use the sources of those quotes. In other words, review and use.

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