• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    This highlights to me more and more that we probably need to be involving ourselves in a massive and organised way in natopedia editing.

    We’re at least 15 years too late for that. Feds have full-time jobs as Wikipedia editors. All that rules-lawyering bullshit is either something that heavily advantages full-time jobs editors who get paid to memorize those rules or something completely conceived by them in the first place. Plus, I think Jimbo Wales or some Wikipedia higher-up has fed connections, so there’s that as well.

    At this point, it’s better to start a campaign that discredits Wikpedia as a source rather than attempt to change it from within. If you go to /r/askhistorians, they constantly shit on Wikipedia, so it’s not just those tankie commies who don’t like Wikipedia. Wikipedia has always sucked for anything not related to the hard sciences, and even for that, there’s plenty that it gets wrong.

    Just call people who link Wikipedia a pseud who doesn’t know how to read books.