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Wouldn't maintaining a fork of Wikipedia all on your own be a huge about of work with relatively little benefit in terms of helping other people learn about you
by schoen 6y ago
Wouldn't maintaining a fork of Wikipedia all on your own be a huge about of work with relatively little benefit in terms of helping other people learn about your views and your knowledge?
It would be a huge amount of effort just to keep up with other people's mainline Wikipedia edits on a handful of articles that you already knew were relevant to your interests, and prospective readers would have a super-hard time finding your versions, and also distinguishing "Wikipedia articles that you had the opportunity to edit and keep up with" from "copies of mainline Wikipedia articles that you actually disagree with, but that happen to be present in your fork because you haven't had the time to edit them, or you haven't even noticed that they're there".
Or would you have a fork in which the only articles actually present were ones that you had edited, and all others produced a redirect to Wikipedia with an interstitial message indicating that you hadn't had any opportunity to review that content?
- Roritharr 6y ago>Or would you have a fork in which the only articles actually present were ones that you had edited, and all others produced a redirect to Wikipedia with an interstitial message indicating that you hadn't had any opportunity to review that content? Something along those lines, the work is kind of the point. Maintaining a coherent but alternative worldview on your own is a gruesome task, the more neatly it fits into the global consensus, the easier it is going to be to maintain, allowing for radical ideas which are nonetheless consistent with f.e. our laws of physics would be much easier than trying connect free energy to the laws of thermodynamics.