Jimmy Wales – Natsuki Sakamoto

I watched some clips about Wikipedia and learned both positive and negative aspects of that.

 As you know, Wikipedia is very useful tool. I realized it again by watching the clips. We can research what we want to know easily and quickly. However, some information written in Wikipedia are incorrect, fake, not accurate, or not true. Therefore, I think we must distinguish correct information and incorrect one. Otherwise, we have a misunderstanding, and may teach about that to the other person. It’s very serious problem, I think. What I described above is familiar with many people, and it’s a negative aspect of Wikipedia.

 On the other hand, a new thing that I learned from his talking is to contribute to African school children. Many school children in African countries don’t have access to research material, and their school doesn’t have library, so Wikipedia helps them to research for their studying. Before I watched the video, I hadn’t known that Wikipedia plays an important role in developing countries.

 From now, I will try to recognize if the information is correct or not and also will be more careful not to get wrong information when using Wikipedia. However, I will continue to use the tool, I don’t want to stop using, because it takes less time to find the answer than other site. Of course, when I have a lot of time, I will research the other official site.

 I couldn’t organize my thought well, but in the end, I think we should use Wikipedia and other site depending on the time and the situation.