For a minute I thought this was in c/writingprompts. I don’t know what to do with this prompt

I bet you DO know what to do with this prompt. Common’ let’s hear it :)

Post it. Would be fun.

In general wikipedia is a great source of knowledge that would be very hard to find elsewhere. That said, it can and often is edited by anyone. I’ll never forget a friend sent me a link to file system comparison chart which included ReiserFS and someone added the last column ‘Murders your wife’ to ‘Features’ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_file_systems&oldid=209063556#Features

technically, the filesystem wasn’t implicated beyond the f’d up way his brain was working at the time. smh

Did they at least cite the source for that?

Source: just trust me bro

Wikipedia has been dealing with AI and bots since someone made a 2000 census article writer in 2003. Hopefully they are resistant to the rise of Chatbots

my understanding from an English professor is less about its reliability of information, but more its reliability regarding citing sources. you can’t cite something that consistently changes

It’s also just often completely inaccurate. The standards it uses to cite works make them pretty much useless: any good information on Wikipedia is on there by accident.

That is wildly inaccurate and you know it. There are like 6.5 million articles on Wikipedia and the majority (since people are pedantic, we’ll say 50.1%) are well cited and accurate

Have you looked at what’s considered a valid “source” on Wikipedia?

The fact that there’s an odd good article does not make the site a reliable source of anything.

And the ability for folks to change it and provide inaccurate sources. It’s peer reviewed for the most part and academia wants officially peer reviewed sources.

Technically you could cite a version in the version history. But Wikipedia isn’t about being right. It’s about trying to get It better

The schools should have used wikipedia as an opportunity to teach media literacy. You don’t use wiki as your source, you go to the cited sources and investigate those. Use the cited sources a in your school reports.

Yet I see some teachers themselves using “Source: Google images” lmao

That might be one reason why some warned against using it, but I definitely had teachers in middle school and high school that explicitly said not to use it because it could be changed by anyone including people who could be wrong or lying.

definitely not incorrect, for sure

Hmm, interesting. When I was in HS, I would paraphrase Wiki and use their citations in my bibliography 😆

Any argument based on “us vs them” is flawed by default.

Yeah, like, who are “they”?

Nazis, terrorists and/or communists. In abstract, no definition or distinction. Just don’t think about it too much.

“They” will fit one of these. But for sure, trust “us”, because we’re definitely not either of these.

I don’t know many communist per se (mostly other flavor of leftists/marxists) but most of the folks around me hold wikipedia in high regards.

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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

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