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Wikipedia is awesome as long as there is zero political content in an article. Of course you need to look at primary sources. I don't think writing something a
by raxxorrax 5y ago
Wikipedia is awesome as long as there is zero political content in an article. Of course you need to look at primary sources.
I don't think writing something angry about a politician or public persona is a too great offense, good that people are interested at least and the community often did a great job of cleaning that up when feelings cooled down.
But the propaganda wars in recent times are on a whole other level, especially since there are PR firms that found out about the prevalence of Wikipedia in peoples lives.
The articles about ant-eaters are still extremely awesome. Math is surprisingly stringent in what is regarded as relevant for an article, you don't find too much context. There are some advantages to that though.
- yummypaint 5y agoYeah wikipedia is still the go-to jumping off point for most science and math topics. It's has articles as informative as many domain specific textbooks, but covering all areas. I would claim it's the single best technical reference humanity has produced yet. Can't this be enough? It doesn't also have to be the arbiter of all truth.