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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (www.404media.co)
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[โ€“] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 141 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

There's a lot of problems with Wikipedia, but in my years editing there (I'm extended protected rank), I've come to terms that it's about as good as it can be.

In all but one edit war, the better sourced team came out on top. Source quality discussion is also quite good. There's a problem with positive/negative tone in articles, and sometimes articles get away with bad sourcing before someone can correct it, but this is about as good as any information hub can get.

[โ€“] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 68 points 4 days ago

Thank you for your service ๐Ÿซก

[โ€“] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

I remeber an article form a decade or more ago which did some research and said that basically, yes there are inaccuracies on Wikipedia, and yes there are over-simplifications, but** no more than in any other encyclopaedia**. They argued that this meant that it should be considered equally valid as an academic resource.

[โ€“] markko@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Any chance you remember what that one edit war was about?

[โ€“] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

There was a hilarious one in the human anus article, about the picture being used in said article

[โ€“] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It was about whether Bitcoin Cash was referred to as "Bcash" or not.

I forget the semantics, but there were a lot of sources calling it Bcash, but then there were equally reliable sources saying that was only the name given by detractors. The war was something about how Bcash should be referenced in the opening paragraph

[โ€“] markko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you very much!

I'm glad it was at least about something fairly trivial.