• wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.worldOP
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    27 days ago

    It’s likely that the editors and principles have been betrayed by this point and thus Encycla and ibis.wiki should be the places we can flock to.

    Edit: What’s going on with the downvotes? What is despicable or freakish about discussing Wikipedia through a critical lens?

    X, for example, is discussed through a critical lens ad nauseum in many mainstream publications throughout the English-speaking world. Do you find that despicable, too?

    Wikipedia has very big problems that profoundly effect public discourse. Yet almost nobody knows about them.

    Out of curiosity, why is criticism of Wikipedia so infuriating to you? You can just take a look at what Tracing Woodgrains had written about Wikipedia or rather, the following by Aaron Swartz who’ve seen the problems far away.

    http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads

    I’ll be blunt here for die-hard defenders of Wikipedia; are you going to die on a wrong hill where the Andrew Tate fanboys are currently on just because of a website and institution which is far from perfect just like X, Meta, and United Nations?

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        I hadn’t either but tbf most people hadn’t heard of the fediverse until that Reddit thing. In this case the entirety of Wikipedia could along with an exodus, should one be warranted

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          Most people still haven’t heard of the fediverse. We’re in a tiny bubble here, an insignificant fraction standing disconnected from the vast majority of the population.

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      27 days ago

      What are the differences in those sites’ governance which would immunize them from a similar legal attack by the BJP?

      They probably don’t have half the legal staff of Wikipedia.