Week 7 - Response To Content ( Can Wikipedia be Usefull?)

Although it is not always trustworthy, Wikipedia is a good place to start looking for something that you need information on. Through a system of a dense linked structure, meaning lots of inner links, there are many different topics that inter-relate with each other and make it easier to find the information you are after. (1). 

Wikipedia also has various other characteristics such as live updates, word sense disambiguation by URL and brief anchor texts which make the site even easier to use. (2). A lot of people think Wikipedia has more wrong information than correct but this is not true. A lot of the information is actually correct. Although it may not be the best idea to quote directly from Wikipedia, as I said before, it’s a good place to start so you can find related aspects about the topic to search elsewhere. Also, depending on who has edited or added information on Wikipedia you may get lucky with a few links straight from that page as references. 

Wikipedia is a site full of information that allows all different people to add or edit the information gathered there. Allowing people outside of the site can cause problems if wrong information is stored, however that wrong information can be corrected. It is a way for people to interact and learn through each other and from different points of views.  Someone may know what something is and decide to add it to Wikipedia but then someone else may have a better way of putting it to be made more understandable. Wikipedia is a place where information can grow.

References: 

      (1) Davison, B 200, ‘Topical locality in the web,’ Proc. of the ACM SIGIR, pp. 272–
279.

      (2)  Nakayama, K, Hara, T, Nishio, S 2007, ‘A thesaurus construction method from large
scale web dictionaries,’ IEEE International Conference on Advanced
Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2007), pp. 932–939.

      ~Blue-Inspiration