W9: Do you think Wikipedia is reliable? / MINJEONG LEE
I think Wikipedia articles are mostly reliable, if not all. Korea's online wiki "NamuWiki" has as much data as Wikipedia, but I get information from Wikipedia rather than "NamuWiki" when I have questions or do class assignments. "NamuWiki" is entirely biased, sourceless or unclear. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is mostly written in reference to reliable sources and edited together by many users around the world. As a representative example of collective intelligence, many people try to create Wikipedia as accurate, unbiased and reliable as possible by writing articles together.
Nevertheless, Wikipedia is not always accurate and unbiased. Still, the majority of Wikipedia users are white males, and as in real society, the voice of the socially disadvantaged is small. And relatively little subject matter is not actively edited and debated. I think Wikipedia's reliability will be higher if various kinds of people contribute as much as possible to Wikipedia.
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