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It irks me that people have a hatred for Wiki. It's a really stupid myth about it being unreliable.
Like no shit it's not a great source for a scholarly essay, but shit neither is PBS. But you don't see teachers shitting all over PBS. 🤷🤦 -
Awlex177457y@jhh2450 that hate spawned from to reason written above. I don't hate their encyclopedia
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@Awlex Yea no the fact you donated proves you don't hate it.
But after hearing people bash Wiki for the last five years acting like everything on that entire website is total bullshit annoys me. Our educators preach it being unreliable when it's probably just as reliable as they are, if not even more reliable in some cases. -
steipilz1187y@jhh2450 the problem comes when you have to cite. You can't cite wikipedia, because it's not the source. So just klick on the references and cite those.
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@steipilz but one can cite an printed encyclopedia although they have/had so many mistakes in them where errors on wikipedia will be fixed within a day for a lot of pages.
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awnumar2837yThe Wikimedia Foundation is actually quite well off, and only get a very small proportion of their annual budget from their shitty campaigns.
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@Dropkick500 Exactly... Even when someone edits it, they catch the bullshit.
"But...but... I know someone who edited an article and it never got changed."
Right, well if you edit an article that gets just a few visits a year, no shit nobody's going to catch it. Stop spreading bullshit myths. 🤷 -
I'm not donating anything to these greedy Bastards.
They already have all the money. They should just fuck off with their shit ass pop-ups. That is one big indicator of hatred towards them.
Alright wikipedia, i see that you're in a crisis, but I just send 5€ your way. That should not be the fucking signal to unleash popup hell on me. Fucking 4 out of 5 pages now come with that popup. "if rveryone woukd just send $2..."
BITCH I SEND YOU 5€, STOP DEEPTHROATING ME YOUR UNGRATEFUL COCK
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