We should be careful or we will turn it into the Ministry of Truth.
They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.
Submitted 1 year ago by Daft_ish@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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zazaserty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Everyone’s all over the place on this. There are multiple levels of fact-checking, moderation, contributions, etc. Which misses the entire point Wikipedia. Having a decentralized encyclopedia where people collaborate, fact check, curate, and contribute was the design goal. Wikipedia is the exact solution for keeping us from creating a ministry of truth.
zazaserty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
My problem with wikipedia is that all the information is being stored in the same website. Since it appears first when you search for anything, it becomes the only way to fact check things for people. Since most won’t scroll past wikipedia and just trust it, the information posted there becomes the objective truth. If someone in control of the site wishes to make modifications, and does them properly, he can alter truth.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m just a paranoid guy on the Internet, I do believe that wikipedia is doing a lot of good. It’s, as you said, a healthy and complete hub of information online. Like the library of Alexandria. It just scares me that there is only one hub like this. There should be equally big libraries of information, to allow contrast.
applejacks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wikipedia is dominated by a bunch of special interest groups that make ideological edits and lock others from reverting them.
Check out the “talk” tab if you want to see the psychopaths determining what content is shown.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Better than Google because at least it tries to fact check but it should be seen as a search engine
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wikipedia has the rest of the internet beat in terms of despot admins.
kamen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]explodicle@local106.com 1 year ago
He literally can’t, it’s a freely licensed work that you can copy and modify whenever you want.
berrim@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For a minute I thought this was in c/writingprompts. I don’t know what to do with this prompt
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Post it. Would he fun.
rustyriffs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I bet you DO know what to do with this prompt. Common’ let’s hear it :)
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
That’s kind of sad
havokdj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not when elon turns it into dickipedia and makes every page reference him in a positive light
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wikipedia is not for sale.
havokdj@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m well aware, it is something that we call a “joke” if you haven’t seen the news lately
FinallyDebunked@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
did he?