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pglpm@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

What’s written on Wikipedia is no different from what’s written on a wall in some city’s street. No one knows who wrote it, no one knows how much of it is true. What’s written is determined by insistence, not by agreement or expertise. Whether you can get something useful from its pages is a matter of luck.

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Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
except that wall is actually periodically cleaned, with new paintings on any wall in the city sending an alert to the townhall urging people to check the walls

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moubliezpas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Literally everybody can see exactly what was written, when, and from which IP address. Not only is that history maintained indefinitely on Wikipedia, it’s also downloaded by thousands of people around the world.

Everybody who has ever added a missing punctuation mark to a page is recorded in history, the specific date and time and page and action, accessible even if the world wide web goes down and Wikipedia ceases to exist.

I’m not sure if your ‘anonymous graffiti’ analogy is quite right, though I’m also struggling to imagine many places in my country where someone could graffiti on a wall and not be tracked down very quickly if necessary.

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