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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago

They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago
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    Lawl, 1) 25% of Wikipedia in English is unsourced

    https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-wikimedia-is-using-machine-learning-to-spot-missing-citations/#:~:text=With crowdsourced content%2C citations are,articles lack a single citation.

    lAwL 2) 77% of Wikipedia is written by 1% of its editors

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#:~:text=If the original information in,an apparent credibility to falsehood

    RaWfL 3) once a source is credited once, it isn’t rechecked and can be used as a source on Wikipedia countless times

    LmFAo 4) literally anyone saying something does not make it credible or true.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      Rolfcopter. This guy doesn’t know how to use Wikipedia.

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        You probably learned how to use Wikipedia from Wikipedia, that’s how you got so wrong.

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          Not bad actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_fact-checking

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      deleted by creator

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        It could even be someone purposefully poisoning the well

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          Kinda like how the government hires people to put terrible music over all the UFO footage so we perceive it as crazy people stuff.

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        Not at all. I’m responding to OP, and while my comment is informative and sourced so that other people can understand it too, I do not care at all that my in-kind response turns some people off.

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          Lol… kinda reminds of something… Wikipedia?

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            As scrambled as your brain is, anything could.

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              my comment is informative and sourced so that other people can understand it too, I do not care at all that my in-kind response turns some people off.

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                And you’ve learned how to copy and paste! Big day for you.

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                  You’re one obnoxious fuck.

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                    Source?

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                  Yeah just like you copy and pasted your ethos from Wikipedia.

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                    If you’re this wrong about a two-syllable word, you shouldn’t worry about cracking the code.

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          Thanks, trusting wikipedia because it has a “source”(, as if a source meant the truth 🙄,) is super weird, and i’ll also add that a lot of sources are inaccessible anyway, such as those pointing to books. Wikipedia will hopefully(, in part because it’s always a mistake to pretend knowing “the one truth”,) be replaced one day, it’s long overdue.

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            The inaccessibility of many wiki sources is a very good point, thanks.

            I think Wikipedia serves its purpose as a broad strokes indicator of things that are likely significant in some way, but its limitations are as important as its content.

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