Wiki is a collaborative Web site that allow users to create, add to, modify or delete the Web site content via their web browsers.Many wikis are open to modification by the general public.The question is should you trust wiki as an academic research tool? As Wikis has grown in size, number and popularity .Some educators and librarians have shunned the sites as valid sources of research. While many Wikis are entirely controlled with a limited number of contributors and expert editors, they usually focus on narrowly defined specialised topics. Most large on-line Wikis such as Wikipedia, often involve thousands of editors, many of whom remain annonymous. Recently television reporters purposesly vandalised entries on Wikipedia for John Lenon and Elvis Presly in an attempt to discredit Wikipedia and to test how quickly corrections are made. Editors quickly corrected the information. In some situations rival political factions forcified Wiki entries in an attempt to give their own candidates a vantage point. To solve this problem some proposed that Wikis should be used as a starting point for research,but the information should be verified using traditional sources.
QUESTION: If a Wiki provided verification of the credentials of the author, would you trust the Wiki more?
Why or why not?
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ReplyDeletewhile the wiki sites are quite informative and provide legitamate researched work, we cannot take for granted that it is verified it is done properly.very informative
ReplyDeletevery interesting and easy to read.well done.
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ReplyDeletei don't know.. its a very interesting question.. but i probably still wouldn't use it.. something like wikipedia is good for researching celebrities and stuff but nah i wouldn't use it for research even if they tried verifying it with traditional sources.
ReplyDeleteeven if it worked, it would get to a point where everyone would use it and books, journals and articles wont matter as wiki would be the first choice.. but the point i'm trying to make is that wiki as a whole is bad.. with or without valid sources
wikipedia is good for high school projects like geography etc i think it was helpful when i was younger...but as you get older its important to use legit information..there is also the issue of plagiarism in university its so easy to get disqualified by using wiki
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