W5. Can we trust Wikipedia? - Jaeig Lee (이재익)

Summary


Wikipedia has a lot of information. Wikipedia is a Web page that is designed to collect, edit, and fix information. It is no wonder there is so much information.

There is so much information not only on wikipedaa but also on other webpages. 
Social networking services such as Facebook and Instagram are also very informative. 
But they have a structure that is difficult for others to edit or fix information. 
In other words, if false postings spread as if they were true, they would be very difficult to correct unless they are corrected quickly and demanded to be deleted.
It is a loss to both those who receive the wrong information and to those who suffer from it.
However, unlike them, Wikipedia seems to be reliable because of its structural characteristics that it is easy to censor and correct each other.



Interesting point 

Wikipedia has very dangerous structure. In a way, the first post after the webpage was opened was a meaningless posting, and it would have been difficult to control it if many people had produced meaningless postings in sync with the first one. In addition, it would have lost its credibility. 
Did they simply trust people at the time they opened?



Discussion point

Wikipedia attracts large crowds of people and uses their collective intelligence to monitor, correct, and develop that large amount of information. I think this has made Wikipedia a reliable Web page. 
This makes Wikipedia a very successful web page.
Facebook, however, is suffering greatly from false news. 

Why aren't the other pages as faithful as Wikipedia to censoring, correcting, and filtering each other's precise information?

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