Re:Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires uni...
by applfanboysbgon on Sunday August 02, 2026 @12:01PM
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Before LLMs, Wikipedia was the greatest source of misinformation in all of human history. It is at best good for satiating an idle curiosity with some plausible-sounding fun facts to amuse oneself with without care for whether they're really true or not, but so many people rely on it for so much more, and I have little doubt it causes more harm than good. Real encyclopedias with professional standards exist.
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Re:Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires uni...
by juleiie on Sunday August 02, 2026 @12:22PM
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That’s very correct. Wikipedia has been an unending source of failing exams among my students.
Re:Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires uni...
by culi on Sunday August 02, 2026 @01:57PM
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What do you teach?
Re:Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires uni...
by Pay08 on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:30PM
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What truly grinds my gears about Wikipedia isn't the amount of false information but the amount of uncorroborated info. The amount of times I've read an article that made large, sweeping claims about something and then not have any citations, often not even a "citation needed" box should be frankly unacceptable.
Re:Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires uni...
by britta on Sunday August 02, 2026 @07:53PM
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Come help! Here's the August 2026 unreferenced articles backlog drive, with instructions and a leaderboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unrefere...