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> Don’t be afraid of destroying things. Wikipedia isn’t unique or precious really. Surely you’re joking?

• applfanboysbgon 2mo ago
  Before LLMs, Wikipedia was the greatest source of misinformation in all of human history. It is at best good for satiating an idle curiosity with some plausible-sounding fun facts to amuse oneself with without care for whether they're really true or not, but so many people rely on it for so much more, and I have little doubt it causes more harm than good. Real encyclopedias with professional standards exist.
  • juleiie 2mo ago
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    • culi 2mo ago
      What do you teach?
  • Pay08 2mo ago
    What truly grinds my gears about Wikipedia isn't the amount of false information but the amount of uncorroborated info. The amount of times I've read an article that made large, sweeping claims about something and then not have any citations, often not even a "citation needed" box should be frankly unacceptable.
    • britta 2mo ago
      Come help! Here's the August 2026 unreferenced articles backlog drive, with instructions and a leaderboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unreferenced_articles/Backlog_drives/August_2026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unrefere...
• inigyou 2mo ago
  I hope they mean the project is precious but the formal organisation that funds the project isn't. Like Firefox and Mozilla.