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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by badrabbit on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:20PM (#21548354)
Imagine if wikipedia courted specific types of activists. People should take sides but companies should be neutral,and get out of the way of people engaging in political discourse or activism.
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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by robk on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:24PM (#21548388)
Wikipedia is chock full of activists
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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by badrabbit on Saturday November 16, 2019 @12:15AM (#21551144)
Users,users! Not wikipedia promoted groups. Ffs,what is controversial about that?
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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by notadoc on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:39PM (#21548522)
Wikipedia is far from neutral and full of activists and people with agendas.

It can sometimes be acceptable for a broad overview of a subject, but it's so full of opinion, inaccuracy, and misinformation that it should have near zero credibility for anyone who is seeking truth and bias-free knowledge. Appropriately, it has zero credibility in any credible academic environment BTW.

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by kaycebasques on Saturday November 16, 2019 @12:32AM (#21551193)
> The journal Nature says the open-access encyclopedia is about as accurate as the old standby.

https://www.cnet.com/news/study-wikipedia-as-accurate-as-bri...

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Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings by adrianN on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:48PM (#21551070)
There are no unbiased sources of knowledge. Wikipedia isn't special. Everything is written by humans and humans have their biases. That's why you shouldn't get all your information from a single source.
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