W9: Reliability and verifiability

 Summarize

Anyway, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, reliability and verifiability are core values. Is Wikipedia is reliable? Sometimes the answer is yes However sometimes the answer is No. Lots of studies gave conformed Wikipedia’s reliability is as great as other encyclopedias. But, vandalism and attack is always exist. Moreover lots of contributors write only what they interested in. Bias or wrong information can exist always.

So, this video suggest some ways how to make more reliable Wikipedia. First, please use reliable source. We should have consider four areas to assessing the reliability of the reference: type of the work, creator of the work, publisher of the work. age of the work. Too old work has high possibility of obsolete and Unupdated information. Self-published book has low reliability like personal blog.

Second, it is important to distinguish between facts and opinions. This rule can be access to any sources. Even news or academic paper, both opinion and facts are often contained.

Three, use tools provided by Wikipedia.  Wikipedia provide lots of tool to suggest questions about reliability and to request additional information. The ‘red flag’ is one of typical tool. By using them, we can co-work with other Wikipedians.


interesting & new

I often use the news to reference. However I didn’t consider the importance of distinguishing between facts and opinions. After reading this text, I thought I would pay more attention for it. Almost my contributions are dealing with social case and phenomenon. Therefore, the concept of truth is it feels more vague. I have no choice but to use a lot of statistics and information close to my perspective.


Discussion Point

Do you think Wikipedia is reliable? If yes or not, What do you think we can use Wikipedia as a source?

Although this discussion point has been suggested by the professor, I think there is still importance to debate between us. In conclusion, I think Wikipedia is not reliable. As I wrote in Interesting & new part, I felt me and many other Wikipedians deal with only what I interested in. If it wasn't meant to be, but it was.. However, there are no way to block them in Wikipedia. Only way to solve is more Wikipedian pay attention to this subject. Unfortunately, always minor subjects are exist. These pages are highly risk of remaining long wrong information. As one of the sayings on Wikipedia is “Verifiability, not truth”, except neutral truth for Wikipedia is too much to think about.

So, I think we should have use Wikipedia as the degree to which one refers to the ideas of the universal people. In this aspect, I am looking forward to do research around Wikipedia's discussion and history pages to see what people think about a particular topic.


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