Friday, February 9, 2007

Is Wikipedia credible?

Currently browsing thru databases searching for information blocking and credibility...
Anybody would like to comment why you think Wikipedia is a credible source? You guys perhaps often quote Wikipedia inside your essay rite? Then what makes you believe in its information credibility? Why don't you think that the information contained perhaps has been abused or is not true or is in favour of certain party? What ensures you guys?
Your comment would be so much appreciated ^^

18 comments:

dindapresanti said...

memang misteri git, dnd jg bertanya2. kl dah ada kesimpulannya boleh ya bagi2 ^^

fika said...

Credible,neng, klo buat sekilas info. Tapi klo buat ditaruh di fyp report mending jangan, hehe. Taruhlah paper2 dari berbagai conference sebagai referencemu, yosh!

HQ said...

wiki itu ya kayak kita dengerin orang lain ngomong, tergantung persepsi kita dia itu boong atau nggak....^^

hamid said...

Well, Gita, to get more understanding about this phenomena, (I call it phenomena coz it is really phenomenal), I recommend you to read the book about "The Wisdom of the Crowd" by James Surowiecki (you don’t necessarily read the book thou, can just surf the net or open wikipedia :))

The main idea is that collective intelligent under some circumstances is smarter that smartest people in the world. This book explains more about those circumstances that have to be met.

And Wikipedia with web 2.0 technology ( you can also find explanation about it on wikipedia) is fulfill those precondition, so that if James Surowiecki theory is right, we can assume that wikipedia as collective encyclopedia is better than a heavy and bulky, conventional encyclopedia.

For me, regardless it is credible or not, but I prefer to use it rather than conventional encyclopedia, because so far, even if I did not get a perfect definition, but most of the time it is rite. On top of that, there are many other advantages like we can get the most up-to-date definition, save our time, space and of course save our money.

So, why should we feel hesitate to use it? :D

Adilla said...

Gita, selama ini sih kayaknya Wikipedia cukup credible :). Apalagi yang banyak references dan external linksnya :D. Hmm...Biasanya kalo gak neutral atau diabuse sama mereka dikasih warning atau dikunci kan? Good luck yah :).

hamid said...

Ow, as addition, actually wiki concept have been adopted by many education institutions as an alternative learning tools, because it can trigger active learning and student participation in class enviroment.

And NTU has also started to adopt it. Please check your blackboard :)

y3h said...

uda terima imelku yg ttg wiki kan ?
how? membantu kah?

gita said...

wah...maap komen2nya baru dimoderate ^^..
@all: itu dy...aku lagi ada project masalah credibility...terutama ketika wiki ternyata diquote di persidangan dan flaws (buat yosafat makasiiiihh banget atas artikelnya kemaren.jadi dapet fakta baru ^^)
nah..makanya timbul pertanyaan apakah ia credible. Tar deh kalo aku dah ada source yang lebih lengkap insya Allah aku kasi tau ^^...makasih atas semua masukannya :)

Mr_sheen said...

Credible ahh...aq kalo nyari profil tokoh2 ato something i dont know, Wiki is the place 2 go....
So fine2 aja i guess..

Reza Ditya said...

Lumayan kredibel non....
Kalo ga percaya coba aja buat artikel judulnya "reza ditya"

Dijamin besok paginya langsung vote tertinggi di "page for deleting" Huahuahua....

Yang jelas pertama kali kalo ada engineering terms yang butuh elaborate, pertama kali ane larinya ke wiki

Iko said...

Yah git, yang penting sih jangan pernah ngepost ke public folder aja, hehe... Eh tapi mbah wiki asyik sih. Nggak penting lah credible apa nggak. Asal nggak tiba-tiba ada artikel bilang, "Iko is ugly". Baru deh jangan diikutin, hehe...;p

gita said...

>>iko is ugly

what is iko? nama gethuk dari jepang ya? XD

*jadi inget pertanyaan "what's phishing" hahahaha...

Reza Ditya said...

Wah, sindiran "whats phishing??" ni buat siape ye....

Btw non, coba search artikel "wikipedia" di wikipedia itu sendiri, ada penjelasannya kok, hahaha....

gita said...

yah abang..kan ini buat mengukur awareness orang2 terhadap phishing...bikin video biar projectnya tambah menarik. Ngomong2 video yang bagian abang lucu banget hahahaha

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