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"Why Karen and her far cousin can't have their own Wikipedia pages?" They absolutely can, and it would not negatively impact anyone, anywhere. It would also b
by rsync 11y ago
"Why Karen and her far cousin can't have their own Wikipedia pages?"
They absolutely can, and it would not negatively impact anyone, anywhere. It would also be (essentially) zero cost.
The reason that they do not have their own pages (and the same reason that you or I will almost certainly fail in making a new wikipedia page, regardless of quality or correctness) is that for a small, sad, lame subset of wikipedia users, page creation confers (perceived) status[1] and these little hitlers will spend more time and energy than you can possibly muster to protect and enhance that status.
It is the promise of wikipedia, betrayed and shit all over.
[1] I shit you not. Yes, I know it's inconceivable.
- zanny 11y agoWhy haven't we seen a successful wikipedia fork yet that doesn't have this hijacking by deletionists problem?
- j-pb 11y ago[Network effect.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect) Also due to this Wikipedia is build into a lot of things, like google search, or iOS Siri.
- Goronmon 11y agoMy experience has been that the only people with the desire to put effort into an alternative are mainly interesting in making sure there are so many flash ads on every single page that it can crash your browser.