Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Investigate Answers to Questions

Enkhi and Temuulen
Wikiality- investigate

Where does Wikipedia get its information from?
-From volunteers all around the world

Who is in charge of deciding of what goes into the article and what gets removed form an article?
-They have staff and administrators in an office and they decide what gets removed from an article.

If there is some debate about whether a particular bit of information should or should not be included in an article, what is the process of deciding?
-People try to come to an agreement being neutral no page of information can be biased.

How reliable do you think Wikipedia is?
-It is reliable because there are many staffs that work for Wikipedia that have reliable sources so they check what people wrote and they can delete anything that is false. Every half an hour or so, someone checks a page of information.

How would you know whether a particular article really is accurate?
-The only way to know if a piece of information is accurate and reliable is if there is citation. But on Wikipedia there is rarely citation, so you have to use your instincts to trust that piece of information or not.

How would you go about discovering whether an article contains inaccurate information?
-If it doesn’t have citation, you may not want to trust it, but if it seems to be true, then it’s just your decision.

Method to find inaccuracies
1. Research about that topic and read info’s
2. Compare the original info’s from other sites with the one in the Wikipedia
3. Look for citation
4. Look for one piece of info from the Wikipedia and from another site that is reliable and see if that piece of info is same.

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