Jason ScottWikipedia: Blink for a minute, and a rando "editor" deletes 10 years of your work over the Thanksgiving Holiday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TinyTIM&action=history&useskin=vector
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@textfiles Look, it’s not as if it were mentioned as part of internet history in a book published before Wikipedia was founded, got mentions in wired and nytimes. Obviously, we’re going to need more reputable sources.
And c’mon, significance! Who even is this Stallman person anyway.
And c’mon, significance! Who even is this Stallman person anyway.
Peter Brown@textfiles well being honest it wasn’t 10 years work, but yes, I’ve had that happen.
Alex Rosenberg@textfiles Wikipedia regularly prioritizes nonsense blog sources over primary sources. I gave up trying to correct the PS3 article.
Keith Kaisershot@alexr @textfiles I’ve likewise given up trying to improve the Pippin article. 🙄
Michael Dexter
Michael DwyerUrrrgh... I know that feeling. All my research into the frozen carbonated beverage got replaced with "a type of slushy."
I felt a little like Ford Prefect discovering that his entry on "Earth" had been replaced with the words "Mostly harmless."
DrScriptt@textfiles I’m sorry.
I’ve had more problems than successes updating Wikipedia. So much so that I no longer try.
I also think less of it and it’s content because of my experiences.
As such I consider Wikipedia to be 100±10 level content. A primer at best.
Sy ︲ 🌷🍁Wikipedia would be a very different beast if a user could specify what sources they personally deemed reliable, and then every section/statement in an article had to be anchored to a source that then gets filtered.
#wikipedia #misinformation #autodidacticism #media
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