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It was crowdsourcing before it was a buzzword. Social too. Wikipedia is arguably the internet's biggest achievement. Free. Valuable. Accurate. Up to Date. Volu
by netcan 13y ago
It was crowdsourcing before it was a buzzword. Social too.
Wikipedia is arguably the internet's biggest achievement. Free. Valuable. Accurate. Up to Date. Volunteer run. Non Profit. Efficient. We can see the sausage being made.
It's really the gold standard for a website.
- tokenadult 13y agoFree. Valuable. Accurate. Two out of three ain't bad. I dispute "accurate" as a Wikipedian. I'm trying to fix some problems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOFIXIT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOFIXIT with some articles that have been in appallingly bad shape for years. The last time I edited those articles, they were swiftly made worse by drive-by vandalism. I'll see what happens this time.
- lukifer 13y agoLet's just go with "accurate enough". 99% of Wikipedia's wealth is in its capacity for lifelong education and general reference (as an "exobrain"); no one claims it's a very reliable fact-checker.
- Nursie 13y agoI'm not sure it's that perfect. Try putting up a new page sometime and watch how quickly someone with zero domain knowledge will come and try to have it deleted, usually successfully.
- lukifer 13y agoTo me, deletionist culture is Wikipedia's greatest flaw. If at least two people derive value from a page existing, and it meets all the other criteria, it should be allowed to stand.