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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)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And interestingly it’s trustable because it’s got no central authority core that can be corrupted

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Except there are defacto central authorities governing certain pages.

    Not only that there's a turf war going on for control of them.

    Certain ahem religious organizations monitor a variety of pages and snipe any changes they disagree with. Businesses are doing it too.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I haven’t participated in wikipedia enough to see how these turf wars play out. I’ve heard that, unsurprisingly, there are groups that control pages, some opposed and some unopposed. It’s a really interesting thing to me.

    I’m afraid of politics, generally speaking. But I bet it would be interesting to be a part of all that.

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

    yeah, apart from the admins that have absolute authority over everything and can do whatever the hell they want and make up arbitrary rules that disqualify your perfectly valid sources.

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

    that doesn't happen

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

    There definitely are editors who game the rules. And they are enough of a problem that sometimes rules need to be modified specifically to handle them.

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