Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because this is one of the rare times he sat down at the keyboard to do the real work being done by people in this organization and he realized that it’s hard and he wants a shortcut. He sees his time as more valuable and sees this task as wasting his time, but it is their primary task and one they do as volunteers because they are passionate about it. He’s not going to get a lot of traction with them telling them the thing they do for free because they love it isn’t worth anyone’s time.

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  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think commenters here don't actually do Wikipedia. Wales was instrumental in Wikipedia's principles and organization besides the first year of Sanger. He handpicked the first administrators to make sure the project would continue its anarchistic roganization and prevent a hierarchy from having a bigger say in content matters.

    I would characterize Wales as a long-retired leader rather than leadership.

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  • ronigami@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I swear these people have never been around a cathedral and thought about how it was built.

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• Storm@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because that’s what being in a position of power does to a mf

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