Re:Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia
by watt on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:30PM
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A while ago I thought it was some ploy to carve out business niche for these "fandom" wikis, or pokemon wikis, because list of all the pokemons was not noble enough for grand old wikipedia.
I get everything about slop/spam/etc. but deciding a page about a small band in SmallTown Canada isn't "worthy" of wiki is silly beans. That's the whole point of a collaborative, anyone can contribute wiki. Having people decide what "makes the cut" or not is silly.
They could have gone with a "edu" / "core" wiki that gets to include only certain articles, and the rest are "community" or something, but literally removing articles for anything other than quality/sources/spam is not what wiki started as. And it's not what I donated for, but that's another can of worms...