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TSiege a day ago

Be sure to tell them why you stopped. I’ll be doing the same. Hopefully this pressures them to give up on this

juleiie a day ago | parent [-]

You guys don’t get it apparently but once the thing became corrupted, got a whiff of power and money, there is no chance they are going to be persuaded into anything long term. They may appear to do so short term to appease but money corrupts permanently.

Don’t be afraid of destroying things. Wikipedia isn’t unique or precious really. Some extended pressure would really rejuvenate the idea of such site in one way or another.

It is doubtful if anyone is in power to pressure them at this point though. Wmf grown like a tumour on the back of the site.

nearlyepic a day ago | parent [-]

> Don’t be afraid of destroying things. Wikipedia isn’t unique or precious really.

Surely you’re joking?

inigyou a day ago | parent | next [-]

I hope they mean the project is precious but the formal organisation that funds the project isn't. Like Firefox and Mozilla.

applfanboysbgon a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Before LLMs, Wikipedia was the greatest source of misinformation in all of human history. It is at best good for satiating an idle curiosity with some plausible-sounding fun facts to amuse oneself with without care for whether they're really true or not, but so many people rely on it for so much more, and I have little doubt it causes more harm than good. Real encyclopedias with professional standards exist.

Pay08 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What truly grinds my gears about Wikipedia isn't the amount of false information but the amount of uncorroborated info. The amount of times I've read an article that made large, sweeping claims about something and then not have any citations, often not even a "citation needed" box should be frankly unacceptable.

britta 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Come help! Here's the August 2026 unreferenced articles backlog drive, with instructions and a leaderboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unrefere...

juleiie a day ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s very correct. Wikipedia has been an unending source of failing exams among my students.

culi a day ago | parent [-]

What do you teach?