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Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia’s Covid-19 Coverage
- dTal 6y agoI am hugely impressed with Wikipedia lately. It's become almost journalistic. Example: yesterday I was looking at covid-19 case rate graphs and noticed that Israel had a sudden surge in R approximately around the 17th of May. I got curious about what could have changed, but where on earth was I going to find a comprehensive timeline of specific measures in Israel's coronavirus response? Where could I find that level of detail? Answer: Wikipedia. (and if you're wondering - schools reopened fully, followed closely by a lifting of mask restrictions due a heat wave, followed by houses of prayer reopening to groups of 50 people - all supposedly with distancing rules, but clearly these are not effective)
- js8 6y agoJust a little warning to future historians - backup, backup, backup! Unfortunately, too many details on Wikipedia tend to deteriorate. In the aftermath of 2004 election, there was a lot of articles on Wikipedia about suspected election fraud and anomalies. I don't think it is still there as extensively as it was back then (I looked and now it's a single, medium sized article).