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Wikipedia is mostly useless as a reliable source of information. There are exceptions but for anything beyond superficial information you really have to look e
by photochemsyn 4y ago
Wikipedia is mostly useless as a reliable source of information. There are exceptions but for anything beyond superficial information you really have to look elsewhere. I generally block it from results.
One of the biggest problems is the broken links issue. Supposedly all information on Wikipedia is sourced to newspaper articles, books, research reports etc. but more often than not those source links are broken. It would seem to be a relatively simple task to write some kind of bot that would check Wikipedia links and report the number of broken ones at the top of each Wikipedia page.
- whoknows2 4y ago> mostly useless that's a bit overstated, it's fine to get started on a topic and about broken links, you do realize you can help fix them as well right
- photochemsyn 4y agoWikipedia is something of a propaganda circus. Anything related to prominent politicians or other public figures, or governmental activities, is heavily edited by anonymous persons, most like part of their 'media image management consultant teams' or whatever they're calling PR monkeys these days. Generally the more obscure the topic, the more reliable the information, so there's that.
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