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Wikipedia reminds me of Web 1.0: plain, informational text with minimal formatting, and liberal use of hyperlinks. But it's better than the old web. It has rev
by TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
Wikipedia reminds me of Web 1.0: plain, informational text with minimal formatting, and liberal use of hyperlinks.
But it's better than the old web. It has revision history, proper licensing, suffers less from link rot, uses consistent and readable styling and, of course, it is collaboratively edited.
Shame about the centralisation, though.
- chris_wot 10y agoExcept it does suffer from link rot, and often citations are to inaccessible sources.
- adrianN 10y agoHe said "less". Wiki-internal links usually remain valid. They can hardly help external links rotting away.
- chris_wot 10y agoI'd consider external links more important than internal links. After all, the policy of no original research means you rely on the information you are given to be backed via verifiable sources.
- iamgopal 10y agoI want them to cache atleast pdf version of the page, just in case. ( I think legality might be involve, but still, wish is a wish. )
- chris_wot 10y agoIt's not their content, it might fall under fair use but I'm very doubtful. And that doesn't help with restricted content, where they are almost certain to get a DMCA takedown notice.
- enraged_camel 10y agoI tried to get deleted a page recently where all five citations were to a commercial website that required a login. Apparently this wasn't sufficient reason to get the page deleted. I was told the sources "deserved further scrutiny." I gave up on Wikipedia editing after that.