Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months agoThey use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.message-squaremessage-square328fedilinkarrow-up11.19Karrow-down1122
arrow-up11.07Karrow-down1message-squareThey use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square328fedilink
minus-squareDuamerthrax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoJust so you know, you can check any claim by going to the cited source. If there is no source, you’re free to ask for one or ignore. That’s far better then other systems. It’s also an encyclopedia, not a news paper. You shouldn’t be using it for current events anyway.
minus-squarecricket97@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·10 months agocuration can still skew towards one side. you know this, everyone knows this. just saying wikipedia used to better before it was taken over by ideologues.
Just so you know, you can check any claim by going to the cited source. If there is no source, you’re free to ask for one or ignore.
That’s far better then other systems. It’s also an encyclopedia, not a news paper. You shouldn’t be using it for current events anyway.
curation can still skew towards one side. you know this, everyone knows this. just saying wikipedia used to better before it was taken over by ideologues.