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Don't think a day without reddit, cheezburger, wordpress, and wikipedia will kill me. Besides, there's always the google cache of a wikipedia page. And there'
by logn 15y ago
Don't think a day without reddit, cheezburger, wordpress, and wikipedia will kill me. Besides, there's always the google cache of a wikipedia page. And there's Simple English wikipedia which hopefully they'll block too.
But is wikipedia really that indispensable? It's an encyclopedia, so it summarizes existing knowledge. It's all out there, maybe just scattered.
- mvanveen 15y agoI was wrestling with calling it indispensable, and totally agree that it's all out there, but Wikipedia severely reduces the friction of finding the correct citations and often provides good starting points for great research. The quality of your investigation increases and the round trip time for an inquiry decreases significantly with Wikipedia around. There would probably be several points on Wednesday where without an archive I'd feel really frustrated by not being able to look up a reference on Wikipedia. I'd get by without it, but I'd sorely miss it. Edit: And, to be fair, not having reddit or icanhascheezeburger wouldn't sting nearly as much missing Wikipedia would.