username_1@programming.dev 1 day ago
Even on my personal level I started to use Wikipedia much less. The reason is peculiar though: too much data while too little data. What does that even mean? Wikipedia articles don’t have complete data that is enough for practical use, so I still need to look for information in more specialized sources. And in the cases when I just want a 1-sentence answer on what-the-fuck-this-thing-is question, Wikipedia gives me a few pages of data I don’t need or want. In both cases I am left dissatisfied. So I use Wiki less and less.
Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In that situation it would be a kindness for you to take the specialized sources you’ve found and add them to articles, to save the next person a little trouble
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
Nope. Then I got banned. So I'm not finding it sad to see Wikipedia disappearing
Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh interesting, may I ask how specialized those sources were? The first scenario that comes to mind is that perhaps they were known to be less than reputable, which could lead to a ban
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
Somebody else was agreeing with me, so didn't agree with the moderator either. But the moderator thought that this was an alt account of mine (which it wasn't, it was not me). And then it banned it from the platform. My account a 15 years account old. You can look it up, it's under my real full name.
But ow well. I don't mind anymore like I said. I hope there will be more Wikipedia alternatives.
null@lemmy.org 1 day ago
Did you… not follow the guidelines?
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 day ago
Well. Maybe. But it's more complicated than that. The moderator was aiming for me it seemed. I never had such a bad experience online.
I'm not interested anymore in Wikipedia either; they can just figure it out. I'm never, ever contributing a single word to Wikipedia again.