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A recent survey by Yahoo! that polled 1000 people in Japan between the ages of 15 and 59 on varying forms of media and their credibility revealed what we’ve known all along: Wikipedia came in third behind newspaper and radio, and unmistakably ahead of television. Perhaps more surprising is that 2chan came in last, prompting us to believe that the survey only sampled people who leave their rooms on a daily basis.

Such results, should they be representative of the entire population, is a pretty strong indicator of the increasing credibility of Wikipedia as a source of factual information, quelling doubts that an user-edited encyclopedia website would be overrun by disinformation and attention-seeking trolls. Since Japan always tends to be ahead of the curve in its willingness and alacrity at assimilating technology into their daily lives, it may be a good indicator of things to come for the western world, should your own research habits be inadequately convincing.

To read the table above: x-axis is “credibility”, y-axis is “usage amount”, with the size of the circle indicating “usage intent”. The table shows us that after television, search engines and portal sites (like Ningin) fare well, followed by company homepages, specialist forums, Q&A sites (Yahoo Answers?!), magazines, video sharing sites (Nico Nico), personal blogs, social networks, 3D virtual worlds (Second Life), with “general bulletin boards” far in last, no doubt referring to the monstrosity that is 2chan.

[source] via Sakaku Complex


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Really? Wiki? haha


But people edit it all the time.


lol Well not in Japan.


That’s crazy. lol


I wish the American one was more trusted...lol Apparently Derek Jeter is captain of the LA Lakers. lol


Rofl. Doesn’t anyone fact check it?


another interesting point is that while english wikipedia is a battleground for partisan bickering, japanese wikipedia sees most of its edits in areas pertaining to anime, manga, gundam, meido cafes…


Hrm not always, but awhile ago someone figured out a way to find out who edits the post and it lead to a bunch of controversy.


Yeah the top wiki articles are game/anime related.


I love just pressing the random article button. haha


So what’s #1 and 2?


lol! I can’t believe it’s so honest there. But then again most of the article changes are anime related. haha


Japanese people have lives. Americans just like to fuck around. haha


^ lol I remember one day when I was small I went around to every random page I could find and inserted a picture of a rubber duckie and the words “I love Rubber Duckies” randomly somewhere in the article >_>

My English teacher says Wiki is only a good site to form ideas, not to credit and source lol.


Don’t they have an anime wiki? Other than wiki?


@Hellojeffy. Your teacher is right. haha But people use it as a source a lot.


Only because people edit it so much.


lol! I know people who just copy wiki and use it as their essays. So STUPID.


Are you serious....


Yep! hehe


Wiki sucks.


I can’t believe people would cheat off of Wiki. What a loser. haha raspberry


lol Anyways...it’s just wiki…


I never saw wiki as a bad or negative thing. lol


Most of the articles are pretty accurate but people like to mess around.


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