Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia
sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoIs the point of Wikipedia to provide everyone with information, or to allow editors to spew jargon into opaque articles that are only accessible to experts?
I think it’s the former. There are very few topics that can’t be explained simply, if the author is willing to consider their audience. Best of all, absolutely nothing is lost when an expert reads a well written article.
Many people who are in a position to write opaque jargon lack the perspective that would be required to explain it to a person who isn’t already very well-versed. Math articles are often like that, which doesn’t surprise me. I’ve had a few math professors who appeared completely unable to understand how to explain the subject to anyone who wasn’t already good at it. I had to drop their classes and try my luck with others.
I feel like a few of them are in this thread!
Trolling aside, yeah, being able to explain a concept in everyday terms takes careful thought and discipline. I’m consistently impressed by the people who write Simple articles on Wikipedia. I wish there were more of those articles.
I wasn’t trolling
applemao@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thats fair