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Re:The Small World of English by hftf on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:57PM (#44172103)
I get the impulse to assume they'd be alike, but I've found that Wiktionary really isn't much like Wikipedia.
Re:The Small World of English by card_zero on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @05:01PM (#44174686)
The Wiktionary equivalent of citing sources confuses me.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclu...

Which words should be attested? Presumably only uncommon ones? And how is it done, is the "quotes" section the attestation? Is there vandalism to clean up, like people adding their own names to define themselves as awesome? Wiktionary seems to "just work", and I don't really understand what holds it together.

Re:The Small World of English by AStonesThrow on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @02:57PM (#44184211)
I have a feeling that LLM model collapse will be accelerated as humans lose control of smaller Wiki projects like Wiktionary.

They’ll be unable to effectively patrol or prevent generative updates to the project, and for all intensive porpoises, humans will be unwilling to step foot into disputes, and AI will have free reign to redefine all human knowledge.