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When reading Wikipedia, always check the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ubuntu_philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ubuntu_philosophy
by djsumdog 6y ago
When reading Wikipedia, always check the talk page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ubuntu_philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ubuntu_philosophy
and always go back in time a decade:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ubuntu_philosophy&oldid=66847698 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ubuntu_philosophy...
- johnchristopher 6y agoI don't know what to make of that. I remember the 10 year old Ubuntu page (I mean, the word and the concept) but the current page seems more dense but fills with factoids, unstructured and obviously missing some paragraphs (`:` without follow up).
- djsumdog 6y agoThere's not much with this particular page, but I just kinda meant in general; read the page from a decade ago. You'll see how the page grew and you'll also see any bias that creeps in over the years.
- johnchristopher 6y agoI see it everywhere now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#HUAC's_Hollywood_hearings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#HUAC's_Hollywood... > In October 1947 during HUAC's Hollywood hearings, Reagan (whose name also appears as "Regan" in text of the hearings printed by the US GPO testified as resident of the Screen Actors Guild:[55]) testified:
- GloriousKoji 6y agoI know this is a subjective metric but when was wikipedia in it's prime? Seems like sometime in the past decade there was a mass sweep of edits on articles that stripped out a lot of detailed information for the sake of being a more pure "encyclopedia" and in a more abstract language. The best data point I can provide is 2004, when a self aware article was created reflecting the emerging game like behavior of wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_MMORPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_an_MMOR...