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Is this an important metric? I’d imagine a lot of articles across Wikipedia change over time and barely resemble the original article… which is a huge benefit,
by gitgud 3y ago
Is this an important metric? I’d imagine a lot of articles across Wikipedia change over time and barely resemble the original article… which is a huge benefit, as opposed to printed encyclopaedias
All that matters is that the content is factually accurate, which this seems to be
- dan-g 3y agoIt’s not an important metric, but relates quite strongly to the content of the article…
- ggm 3y agoIts importance is contextual. Semantically, if the replacement text says the same things, it has less importance than if the replacement text understood to meaning says something different: one is just "we liked saying it better this way" and the other is "we changed our mind(s)" -they aren't the same. The field of change over a topic is itself a subject of study. It feels like a join over politics, Ontology and Epistemology.
- jwond 3y agoIt's more of an amusing fact, given the topic of the article.
- gitgud 3y agoAhhh okay, I can't believe I missed the irony of this post
- irrational 3y agoDo you know what the Ship of Theseus is?
- LeonB 3y agoIs it even possible, though, to know what the ship of Theseus is?
- irascibeth 3y agoIs the replacement of boards in a ship an important metric?