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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. (lemmy.world)
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[–] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Lawl, 1) 25% of Wikipedia in English is unsourced

https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-wikimedia-is-using-machine-learning-to-spot-missing-citations/#:~:text=With%20crowdsourced%20content%2C%20citations%20are,articles%20lack%20a%20single%20citation.

lAwL 2) 77% of Wikipedia is written by 1% of its editors

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#:~:text=If%20the%20original%20information%20in,an%20apparent%20credibility%20to%20falsehood

RaWfL 3) once a source is credited once, it isn't rechecked and can be used as a source on Wikipedia countless times

LmFAo 4) literally anyone saying something does not make it credible or true.

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  • [+] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not at all. I'm responding to OP, and while my comment is informative and sourced so that other people can understand it too, I do not care at all that my in-kind response turns some people off.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lol.... kinda reminds of something.... Wikipedia?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As scrambled as your brain is, anything could.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    my comment is informative and sourced so that other people can understand it too, I do not care at all that my in-kind response turns some people off.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And you've learned how to copy and paste! Big day for you.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're one obnoxious fuck.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Thanks, trusting wikipedia because it has a "source"(, as if a source meant the truth 🙄,) is super weird, and i'll also add that a lot of sources are inaccessible anyway, such as those pointing to books. Wikipedia will hopefully(, in part because it's always a mistake to pretend knowing "the one truth",) be replaced one day, it's long overdue.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    The inaccessibility of many wiki sources is a very good point, thanks.

    I think Wikipedia serves its purpose as a broad strokes indicator of things that are likely significant in some way, but its limitations are as important as its content.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Rolfcopter. This guy doesn't know how to use Wikipedia.

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