Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

Are there any (usable) alternatives to Wikipedia?

The 1965 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. Anything after that is commie propaganda.

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

Are there any (usable) alternatives to Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is broken as a concept.

 

[DJ Grelle]

The 1965 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. Anything after that is commie propaganda.

Yeah but that doesn't include anything past 1965, such as the six day war f.e.

Wikipedia is broken as a concept.

I think the idea behind it has good intentions, but is hopelessly naive.
Sad really, because the format is very effective.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Wikipedia is broken as a concept.

It was working fine until the beginning of Current Year. It just doesn't really work very well in Clown World (but nor does anything else).

 

[AnOminous]

I think the idea behind it has good intentions, but is hopelessly naive.

It was better when it actually was naive. Now it's just cynical propaganda and the people running it openly admit they don't even care if what's on it is true.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Look what's on Hacker News at the moment: https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...the-internet/FC3F7B9CBF951DD30C2648E7DEFB65EE, https://archive.is/GQ2PO
"Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet"

Sure, it's my go-to place for unbiased information on Trump, abortion, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, or anything to do with trannies.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

It was better when it actually was naive. Now it's just cynical propaganda and the people running it openly admit they don't even care if what's on it is true.

Larry Sanger is so hilariously autistic, I tried to commiserate with him on Twitter once and he lost his shit thinking I was making fun of him. He went on about how much of an asshole I am and blocked me before I could tell him I was trying to be supportive, lol.

I think the thing was that I used a double negative instead of a positive, and he couldn’t follow it

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Look what's on Hacker News at the moment: https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...the-internet/FC3F7B9CBF951DD30C2648E7DEFB65EE, https://archive.is/GQ2PO
"Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet"

Sure, it's my go-to place for unbiased information on Trump, abortion, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, or anything to do with trannies.

A qualitative content analysis shows that Wikipedia transformed from a dubious source of information in its early years to an increasingly reliable one over time. Process tracing shows that early outcomes of disputes over rule interpretations in different corners of the encyclopedia demobilized certain types of editors (while mobilizing others) and strengthened certain understandings of Wikipedia’s ambiguous rules (while weakening others). Over time, Wikipedians who supported fringe content departed or were ousted. Thus, population loss led to highly consequential institutional change.

"We destroyed any opposition and made the place a homogenous status quo support tool. This is good and proves it is amazing."

I hate these people so goddamn much. Also TIL they banned The Daily Mail BEFORE they banned InfoWars which is fucking hilarious in showing how their first concern is political and has fuck all to do with reliability and trustworthiness.

 

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https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1721932638556991971
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I’m hoping for another twist where it turns out that the Spanish indie musician has also secretly been an Indian guy this whole time

 

[WhiteNight]

Look what's on Hacker News at the moment: https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...the-internet/FC3F7B9CBF951DD30C2648E7DEFB65EE, https://archive.is/GQ2PO
"Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet"

Sure, it's my go-to place for unbiased information on Trump, abortion, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, or anything to do with trannies.

From the article:

For example, Donald Trump’s 2016 election, the 2016 Brexit referendum, and the emergence of “fake news” websites may have caused Wikipedians to re-evaluate how they understand the rules of Wikipedia and the role of Wikipedia in society.

"Re-evaluate how they understand the rules." That's one way of putting it.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Sure, it's my go-to place for unbiased information on Trump, abortion, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, or anything to do with trannies.

Wikipedia can still be good for stuff that isn't political or "hot button", like the TRAPPIST-1 solar system, how electric motors work, or the diet of ants. But if it's something related to The Narrative™, expect wannabe commie "social justice" against the "far-right" "conspiracy theories" and Tumblr-esque insanity unbiased viewpoints.

(There was even some college that gave credit for "injecting feminist thinking" into Wikipedia, IIRC.)

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

(There was even some college that gave credit for "injecting feminist thinking" into Wikipedia, IIRC.)

There was. Most recently, I've seen a Jewish conference in Israel teaching the people there, probably some of the population on the dole, how to edit Wikipedia to favour Jews.

 

[AnOminous]

I hate these people so goddamn much. Also TIL they banned The Daily Mail BEFORE they banned InfoWars which is fucking hilarious in showing how their first concern is political and has fuck all to do with reliability and trustworthiness.

The fact they deprecate The Daily Mail and list the Grauniad as generally reliable really speaks for itself. I mean TDM sucks but tell me Grauniad's more objective.

 

[Waifu Denier]

Wikipedia can still be good for stuff that isn't political or "hot button", like the TRAPPIST-1 solar system, how electric motors work, or the diet of ants.

I can only assume because those subjects will cite sources from actual established papers and works, as opposed to CURRENT YEAR newspaper articles.

 

[whogoesthere]

Go and look up killers on wikipedia. You will notice some do not have a picture, whilst some do. Search the killers name on the missing picture ones, notice a pattern on that?

I keep noticing things, noticing all day long.

 

[AnOminous]

Go and look up killers on wikipedia. You will notice some do not have a picture, whilst some do. Search the killers name on the missing picture ones, notice a pattern on that?

What's the point in pictures when they all look the same anyway?

 

[whogoesthere]

What's the point in pictures when they all look the same anyway?

Because it can help inform female voters when they trawl for content for their true crime series.

Who am I kidding, they always pick the same selection of criminals.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

There are no links to KF I could find in the "flightless bird fruit farm site bad" propaganda article (usually articles on websites have easy-to-find links to the sites). Japanese article has a link to the "RationalWiki" article on KF. Russian has KF links though.

 

[Maneo Tempestas]

Citizendium > Wikipedia.

https://swprs.org/wikipedia-and-propaganda/

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Kim Morrissy of the media company Crunchyroll wrote that the use of the word otaku (person with consuming interests) in anime fandom can be hindered by the belief of some Westerners that its use constitutes cultural appropriation and that it can only refer to a Japanese person,[10] which the difference between of weeaboo and otaku could be similar compared to each other, the word otaku is a japanese word for nerd but with japanese culture, and the word "weeaboo" is techinally the non-japanese equilavent of otaku.

1: おたく or オタク (otaku) pretty much means "geek" or "nerd" in Japanese. There's no "Japanese only" in the definition.

2: FFS SJW BS seems to be all over Wikipedia, like a roach infestation (like that mention of "cultural appropriation").