my favorite thing about wikipedia is that even if you read something that seems off you can go to the talk page and read the discussion about how/why it ended up that way, which can sometimes be surprising and lead to other interesting sources
It's much much much more useful than starting reasearch with Google now. If you start with Google you're just going to get page after page of SEO'd AI-generated slop that isn't even what you're looking for.
It's so funny how my college professors would penalize anyone who cited Wikipedia as a source when Wikipedia's sources were much more informative than any of the garbage that I found on Google.
saw at least two of the teachers who harrumphed at us in middle/high school about the internet and importance of citing reliable sources losing their mind to Q-type shit on facebook before i ejected out of there for good
I know you’re saying this as a goof but it’s an extremely real thing. The largest change of my career in teaching kids to research is how much worse most available sources have gotten and how much better Wikipedia looks in contrast.
Yeah, I started teaching in 2011, and I would get so visibly annoyed at my students for using Wikipedia. Completely turned 180 on that in the last few years.
If you can donate, it genuinely helps a lot in keeping it up. Wikipedia has had to deal with all sorts of authoritarian governments, from Russia to Sudan.
He's been obsessed with destroying Wikipedia ever since they wouldn't change their page on him pointing out that he didn't actually found any of his companies.
in case anybody was curious, the word "nazi" appears in his wikipedia page 12 times. dunno if that seems high to anyone, but I'd be curious to find out if there was anyone at all that is both unaffiliated with the nazis, and also has a wikipedia page that actually has that word come up more times
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And it will take all of WE to STOP this SHIT.
*Faith: A natural survival instinct (and bridge), linking the knowable to the unknowable.
with the goal of even if you get information you need to cite where that good information orginianted from.
If we lose Wikipedia we lost the internet.
And now I'm a lawyer, which is very similar