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zoë@zo-e.xyz |
it's actually extremely funny that we were told we can't use Wikipedia for research in the early 2000s but Wikipedia may be the only reason we even have a somewhat coherent historical record of culture and events from the last 25 years or so and will probably be needed to create future history texts
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Chris Broome
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Until Elon buys it and strips away the “woke”
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Ignatz
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A Wikipedia article won't tell you to put glue on your pizza, at least not for more than 10 minutes. Because HUMANS correct it. BTW, paper encyclopedias have errors and go out of date fast.
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Phil
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What the fuck replaced Encyclopaedia Britannica!? 🤔
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@ennuitv.bsky.social
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Teachers today are probably relieved to see Wikipedia plagiarism instead of the no-doubt rampant AI plagiarism.
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Isha
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Remember people selling encyclopedia sets?
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Comma Splice
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TBF, in the early 2000s, Wikipedia entries were often not that robust or well sourced. It's changed a lot.
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Dominique Ramsey 𓆣🍉
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it's such a great site, most of the info out on there is fairly accurate and being updated as new info comes in
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Vic
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Sure my teachers and professors said don't use Wikipedia, but they didn't say I couldn't use the citations on the page I was using 😬
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(=_=) Hype Tornado /Capt. Nemo///
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old-fangled - "wikipedia isn't reputable." new-fangled - "wikipedia is the most reputable by default."
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Erinn O'Dear
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It's a deeply imperfect record. More than likely, reseachers will spend years trying to disentangle the misinformation and missing information it contains. It's more interesting to talk about youtube and its relationship to information gathering and histories. A much more valuable archive, imho.
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cpgorski
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... I kinda want somebody to print it. You can't change printed copies (...well, mostly true). Somebody has put the whole thing on lulu dot com , but 7000 volumes x $80 per hardcover is not gonna happen ( :
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Erica Friedman
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"Don't use Wikipedia" doesn't mean ignore it's existence. It means do not consider a reference in a Wiki article a valid citation. Follow the reference up and validate that it is real and says what the article says it says. Research can start with an encyclopedia, but not end there.
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@furryshapedobject.bsky.social
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An underrated feature of Wikipedia is that it has copies of every version of every article. You can read reactions to the Iraq War as it happened
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La Conquête du Panini
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And for all the warts, the talk pages hold even more info.
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cottagecoregoblin.bsky.social
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Me: "blank movie summary Wikipedia" Also me "Blank war summary"
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the mjl (michael j leblanc)
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IMO that's kinda WHY we were being told "don't use wikipedia". Wikipedia is, literally, "Consensus Reality". Would-be Reality-Creators/Gaslighters hate it, just for that very reason.
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𐍉𐌸𐌰 𐌶𐌰𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌰𐌷 𐌴𐌳𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌳 𐌻𐍉𐌷𐍃𐌴
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Imagine if it got ideologically captured . . . imagine if it might already be.
wikimediafoundation.org/about/annual...
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David
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Wikipedia is so awesome I can't believe I have managed to absorb the guilt of all those pleas for cash and yet never once donated.
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Wolfie Rankin
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There are videos on YouTube describing how to download Wikipedia.
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c______z
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👀
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@RealJiaTan
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Wikipedia has lasted so long as an institution because a) they had a really carefully thought-out bureaucracy of moderation and b) the amount of effort editing Wikipedia as a hobby takes vs the rewards you get from it naturally self-selected for people who just really care about dweeb shit like that
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WildlyManifest 埜為
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People who complain about how poor a source of information it is should use their expertise to improve it. Its a free, community maintained resource, and probably the last, big, good thing left on the www.
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zoë
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(this post is about how much information economy has changed - libraries are being defunded, publications are being deleted before our eyes. the publicly edited encyclopedia that librarians used to warn you away from is now one of the best gateways to knowledge and primary sources in human history)
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