In the interview, Jimmy
Wales says that we need to ask people be very critical of all your information
sources. He also says that Wikipedia is an open system, so things can go wrong,
but there is a core community there who are very passionate about getting it
right.
I agree with his statement. Of course some people say Wikipedia is
unreliable and useless, but I think it is basically useful. Also, I think
Wikipedia itself is not so bad. Really bad are those who trust everything
without thinking whether it is true or false.
I also consider the
social role of online encyclopedias that provide knowledge to everyone. In an advanced
information society, we cannot live without the Internet. This fact is suitable
to me, too. When I have to understand professional knowledge, Wikipedia helps
me a lot. It is true that everything written on Wikipedia is not always right,
but it also presents some verifiable and reliable information sources, so it
leads me to understand difficult knowledge which is incomprehensible when I
read professional books.
So, I think how we get
along with Wikipedia is more important than the accuracy ratio of the articles
in Wikipedia.
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