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How could you possibly call the largest encyclopedia in human history, freely accessible to all, and correct nearly all of the time irrelevant? There are imper

• hulitu 3y ago
  > How could you possibly call the largest encyclopedia in human history, freely accessible to all, and correct nearly all of the time irrelevant? Have you read the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy ?
• lmm 3y ago
  > How could you possibly call the largest encyclopedia in human history, freely accessible to all, and correct nearly all of the time irrelevant? I didn't - I called the other stuff the Wikimedia Foundation does, the stuff that it spends the vast majority of its immense donation income on, irrelevant. > There are imperfections to Wikipedia and the Foundation of course, but, what more can you reasonably expect? I expected policies that better reflected what most users and contributors wanted, or that helped make something better. Almost everyone was against the notability rules (and, while it's a minor thing really, almost everyone was in favour of spoiler warnings; they may have had theoretical problems but they worked well in practice). All the measures to make it harder for new users to edit were based on a false assumption - actually new users are no more likely to be vandals or politically biased than anyone else.