I believe that more than 90 percent of people will use Google as a tool to get the information that they need. Nowadays, many students can access the internet and use it as a gadget to learn and explore the world. And searching for information to answer their question, their curiosity, or even for their homework, they will target Wikipedia as their way out. Wikipedia is quite popular in terms of a website that gather lots of information in one place. Unfortunately, the information is not accurate since everyone can edit the information that shows on Wikipedia. Therefore myself as one of the users that use Wikipedia for my research as well, I encounter the difficulty and hard time to analyze the information as well. I will not use only Wikipedia as a source for my research. I will find two or three more sources to compare and weight the most accurate and credibility before I will use that information for my homework.

Anyone can edit the information in Wikipedia although people who edit it will provide non-true information. For example, I can click the “Edit this Page” tap in Wikipedia and change information however I choose. So I decided that Thailand has never had a coup, I can make it so, regardless of whether or not it is false. Wikipedia may have a summary of an article, information or book on your list. Sometime, the editor who did that summary might have made a mistake or they might miss the main content. It is even possible that an editor who is biased against it may add personal opinion.

Most educational institutions do not allow students to use information from Wikipedia to refer to projects or essays. For example, in 2007 student from a college in the English department said: “I use Wikipedia all the time for my research but I certainly would not cite it.” This showed us that Wikipedia is unreliable. I have been looking for an error in the content of Wikipedia. I had found that Wikipedia itself said: “Wikipedia was unreliable source because Wikipedia cannot monitor thousands of edits made every day, some of those edits could contain vandalism or could be simply wrong and left unnoticed for days, weeks, months, or even years.” This Quote shows that Wikipedia comes out to accept itself that Wikipedia cannot check the data that has changed at any time throughout the day. Therefore, it is common for many schools to have a policy to prevent students from referencing information from Wikipedia.

Most of Thai people have found something that they want to know from Wikipedia. For example, if Thai children want to find the answer for their homework or to find more knowledge, they will find on Wikipedia. But they get a low score because information from Wikipedia not all correct. I’m one of them. When I was 10 years old, I searched the information about the dam to write an article. I did not check before sending it to the teacher because I was confident that the information from Wikipedia is completely reliable. When the day that the teacher told score I got 2.5 out of 5, I was shocked about why I had a few points. I had to ask the teacher. The teacher answered that my articles are very confusing. I still don’t believe my teacher then I took my article to my friend and gave it to him to try to read. When my friend had finished, he told me that this article was very confusing. So, I went back to check the information in Wikipedia that I used by comparing the data from Wikipedia to various websites. I have found that the information from Wikipedia does not match other websites, while other websites have similar information. Since then I tried not to use more information from Wikipedia.

Finally, we cannot believe everything on Wikipedia because as we know, Wikipedia is open for anyone to write and share their perception which is subjective and this reason makes many schools have a policy not to use data from Wikipedia for reference projects. There are also examples of Thai students using Wikipedia data and get a low score. So, we should consider the information carefully before believing.