Ah yes that one site full of white anti communist cishets is a great example of anarchism
a lot of wiki pages are the projects of weird cranks and their cliques who absolutely will not let you edit shit no matter how stupid or wrong it is
Every single Shakespeare page on Wikipedia is run by an editing group who don't believe Shakespeare existed and thus no information that contradicts that viewpoint is allowed. The talk pages go on for 100,000s of pages and its generated legal threats, court cases, legal mediation, academic spats... Jimmy Wales himself trying to help and failing. It's an absolute mess.
Lmao wiki edit wars are the best. My fave is the one where Stanley Kubrick's page doesn't have an info box unlike every other famous person's ever page because the people editing the page decided info boxes make people not read the rest of the text because they only glance at the box instead, and that's really bad apparently because you really really really positively HAVE to read every sentence of the text, for some reason. Apparently there's been a huge edit war over this but the "no boxes" crowd eventually prevailed.
thats absolutely hilarious
and its one of the very few clear-cut cases where the admins of the site should step in and say "look, this is dumb, im putting up the fucking info box and locking it" but wikipedia admins are shit
Pete Buttigieg has meticulously edited his own wikipedia page since its creation
This anarchist seems to be completely unaware of just how hierarchical wikipedia's editing bureaucracy is and just how heavily infiltrated and abused all those systems are. It's completely controlled by a cabal of people with a vested interest in fighting over the ideological presentation of various parts of the site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnost
It was in the late 1980's when most people in the Soviet Union began to learn about the atrocities of Stalin, and learned about previously suppressed events such as the first manned moon landing by the United States, the marches and speeches of the U.S. African American civil rights movement, the full information of the Decolonisation of Africa.
non-hierarchical decentralized knowledge sharing, me very smart, panopticon of dumbasses will save us, promise
didnt the soviet union support most african independence movements lol
are they seriously trying they say they didn't know about the fucking moon landing
Are you kidding? They released it in theaters! Stanley Kubrick's "From the Earth to the Moon".
The US landing on the moon was on TV? How the fuck was it suppressed?
I'd say mainly because you can read the edit history and it's not written exclusively by Americans.
In my experience Wikipedia is a mixed bag. On one hand, there are a vast number of articles where Western chauvinism is rampant and Capitalist ideology is accepted uncritically. In the other hand, there are more articles than I would expect which stand up against this hegemonic worldview.
This. As someone who frequently gets super high and spends an entire night arguing in the Talk Page of some article that maybe gets 15 views a year over the inclusion of some dumbass fash talking point, there are comrades on Wiki. Just not nearly enough
This is actually becoming less useful since a lot of websites and news articles cited by wiki have either been taken down or are behind paywalls. This is an issue that's going to get worse with time too.
Most wikipedia citations point to an archive of the source anyway @Spike
that's the same reason why i cited info gleaned from bathroom stall walls in all my essays. and yes, i'm running a hedge fund now.
if i can get one or two more people to sign up for herbalife, i'll be half way there.
Not really, there are still pages which a bunch of fucking dorks sit on and control the narrative
You can use Wikipedia for schoolwork
Just copy the sources they list on the bottom of the page instead of referencing the Wikipedia article
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That is how I did like 90% of my work
Not bothering to find 10-20 sources and spend the time on the content
- Go to Wikipedia page
- Find decent-looking academic source
- Dig into that source's citations
This can get you surprisingly far if you're pressed for research time, kids.
That's why banning direct Wikipedia citation is good imo. Teach kids to actually read citations of the stuff they research.
Pffft, real mathematicians use Wolfram MathWorld. Explanations and context are for babies.
Hahaha that dude was a brony and singlehandedly flooded Wiki Scots with a bunch of MLP articles too. Never forget
