Is Wikipedia just a reflection of people’s subjective minds or a road showing the way to the truth? The word truth makes me think not only of facts, but also of something that can never be adapted. According to many worrisome teachers the Internet site, Wikipedia, can be considered doubtfull or unreliable concerning the truism or objectivity of Wikipedia. These teachers in some situations ask their students to not use Wikipedia doubting the reliability and the truism of Wikipedia.
When running back into the past till the birth of Wikipedia, “Wikipedia began with a radical idea, an idea about a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to some of all human knowledge,” according to Jimmy Wales. This free accessible information has turned into free adaptable and correctable information, concerning the new Internet development, called Web 2.0 which shock some teachers who consider that this information can therefore sometimes be unreliable or even untrue.
Jimmy Wales, however, as a co-founder of Wikipedia, said: ‘There is nothing about what is true.’ Stating that this discussion would never end if we would wish to find ‘the truth’. According to Wales the ‘truth is not democratic’. “Wikipedia is a crowded version of ‘truthiness’” and “Wikipedia is informative, because Wikipedia owns many point of views and thus many truths”, are sentences spoken by Jimmy Wales during a talk about ‘the birth of Wikipedia’.
Teachers, however, still doubt the reliability of Wikipedia. Wikipedia can be considered as the collector of knowledge from people’s mind, this might still be subjective or objective. This discussion led to a conclusion that Internet is something from which you can learn more about the world and people minds, in good, in bad, in objective and in subjective ways.
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