• Gork@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Is Wikipedia limiting itself though by having a notability requirement? It isn’t like a new page takes up a lot of data storage. Why not have Wikipedia be the entire compendium of human knowledge, regardless of how notable it is?

    • infeeeee@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Yes, just like how an encyclopedia was edited before the internet, common people didn’t had an article there, just notable ones.

      The same way you don’t add historical data to osm, because we decided that we don’t want to collect that data here. But you can add that to openhistoricalmap. There are different projects for different things.

    • chayleaf@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      I presume it’s because creating a Wikipedia article named “Gork”, summarizing your Lemmy activity, would be stupid