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by akolbe 4y ago
That's at the heart of the issue. From a distance, it always feels uncharitable to many people to criticise anything about Wikipedia at all. But bear in mind this criticism comes from Wikipedians – some of the people who actually wrote
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by akolbe 4y ago
I feel really sorry for these executives who have to decide whether to earn $300,000 or $1M. :)) Joking aside, a person in the US agreeing to earn $300,000 rather than $350,000 – to a very large extent off the value created by volunteer lab
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Poll of Wikipedians concludes: Wikimedia fundraising emails are misleading(lists.wikimedia.org)
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Admins wanted on Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted, donations wanted everywhere(en.wikipedia.org)
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The dollar value of “official” external links(en.wikipedia.org)
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Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Existential Loneliness of the Chicken(haaretz.com)
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by akolbe 4y ago
The actual review of the emails starts here (that was the link I originally submitted ...): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(propos... Below the emails and the discussion is an RfC, a straw poll of
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Review of English Wikimedia fundraising emails(en.wikipedia.org)
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Anywhere but here–China now insists the pandemic didn’t start within its borders(science.org)
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A long-running Wikipedia hoax and the problem of circular reporting(inputmag.com)
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by akolbe 4y ago
Just something to be aware of. For stuff like this – names of inventors etc. – it's best to look for corroboration in 20th-century (pre-Wikipedia) sources. The same thing happened with the inventor of the hair straightener; Google and
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Wikipedia’s Credibility Is Toast(wikipediocracy.com)
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Why disinformation is so pervasive and what we can do about it(phys.org)
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How Do Songs Get Picked for TV?(vice.com)
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Surveys commissioned by 16th century Spanish king provide ecological snapshot(science.org)
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Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war – three stories(en.wikipedia.org)
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by akolbe 4y ago
A discussion of how Technoblade was only considered notable enough for a Wikipedia article after his death. He now has a voluminous biography, created on July 1, 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technoblade It'
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Youth Culture and Notability(en.wikipedia.org)
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First photos of cougars killing donkeys in Death Valley–impacts for ecosystem(science.org)
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The “Recession” Affair(en.wikipedia.org)
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by akolbe 4y ago
This is not the first such case. Remember the Bicholim conflict? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
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Zhemao hoaxes(en.wikipedia.org)
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by akolbe 4y ago
:) This was originally reported by a Chinese site: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1010653/she-spent-a-decade-wr... People in China commonly use VPNs to access Wikipedia.
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by akolbe 4y ago
Some more cautionary tales of this type: https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/16/wikipedia_16_birthday... It's really important to check citations in Wikipedia whenever the information matters.
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It Looks Like HighlandPark Shooter Tried Repeatedly to Create Own Wikipedia Page(slate.com)
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by akolbe 4y ago
"What people outside do not appreciate is that a newspaper is like a soufflé, prepared in a hurry for immediate consumption. This of course is why whenever you read a newspaper account of some event of which you have personal knowledge
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by akolbe 4y ago
Some of this content was also in the English Wikipedia – it had been translated from the Chinese Wikipedia. See the deletion discussion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio... Admin notice
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by akolbe 4y ago
That is nicely put and actually a good way of looking at it. Thanks.
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by akolbe 4y ago
Are you a mathematician? I am only asking because I understand that most of the higher mathematics pages on Wikipedia are written by actual mathematicians – and pretty much unreadable to anyone who is not a mathematician and already fully c

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