It's that time again where we need to talk to people to build bandwidth leaching systems off wikipedia to open web random wiki web pages to have them download again and again and again eating up wikipedia's internet bill.
It's still useful as a jumping off point in researching a new topic, but I'm now understanding why teachers REE'd so hard when students utilized it entirely for their assignments.
wikipedia is absolute trash and full of lies.
But I've written a lot of really good content for Wikipedia :(
(Before and after I was banned.)
If I were contributing today, I'd do it at InfoGalactic instead.
The problem (and this I can't change) is that practically everyone goes to Wikipedia.
For now. More and more people are noticing how trash Wikipedia is
Problem is, its usually the top of any search you do and is generally good for the basic ass info you need if you are doing a damn search for it.
Its only people who read entire Articles who would notice that, which is already such a subset that its hard to not call it negligible.
Every time I see that message I am reminded of that image of founder Jimmy Jimbo Wales on a yacht with bikini models.
It wouldn't matter if they pushed propaganda or not, they don't need your money. Their corporate and activist donors already own them.
wikipedia doesn't need your money, they're quite well off actually, this writeup has some data about it
But $100,000,000 doesn't buy a lot of influence with the dollar losing spending power these days!
It's democrat money, isn't it?
Somehow a burned down library sounds like the better option over the Ministry of Truth manhandling the books.
It's that time again where we need to talk to people to build bandwidth leaching systems off wikipedia to open web random wiki web pages to have them download again and again and again eating up wikipedia's internet bill.
Also, they have HEAPS of money.
It's still useful as a jumping off point in researching a new topic, but I'm now understanding why teachers REE'd so hard when students utilized it entirely for their assignments.
Sure, defend the idea. But the Wikipedia that sought to be a central source of crowdresearched topics is dead, and has been dead for a long while.
The idea is worth defending, the current state of the project is not.