Abstract
This study aims to examine how college students evaluate the credibility Wiki sites. For this purpose, 286 college students were surveyed on credibility-releated questions for Wikipedia and NamuWiki. Results indicated that college students regarded Wikipedia as moderately credible, with an average of 3.25 for Wikipedia and 3.14 for NamuWiki. When we analyzed the difference in credibility evaluations between Wikipedia and NamuWiki, we found that Wikipedia was deemed more credible than NamuWiki for most questions, but NamuWiki was statistically significantly higher for “easy to understand”. When looking at the relationship between the credibility of wiki sites and college students' use of wiki sites, both source credibility and content credibility were significantly related. We found that college students perceived the credibility of wiki sites as “moderate” but used them for reasons of “newness” and “easy explanation”. It is necessary to develop evaluation indicators that take into account the characteristics of Internet sites and prepare educational measures on credibility evaluation in Internet reading.
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