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-square138fedilinkarrow-up1484arrow-down147
arrow-up1437arrow-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-square138fedilink
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down11·edit-210 months agoLawl, 1) 25% of Wikipedia in English is unsourced https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-wikimedia-is-using-machine-learning-to-spot-missing-citations/#:~:text=With crowdsourced content%2C citations are,articles lack a single citation. lAwL 2) 77% of Wikipedia is written by 1% of its editors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#:~:text=If the original information in,an apparent credibility to falsehood RaWfL 3) once a source is credited once, it isn’t rechecked and can be used as a source on Wikipedia countless times LmFAo 4) literally anyone saying something does not make it credible or true.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoIt could even be someone purposefully poisoning the well
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoKinda like how the government hires people to put terrible music over all the UFO footage so we perceive it as crazy people stuff.
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·10 months agoNot at all. I’m responding to OP, and while my comment is informative and sourced so that other people can understand it too, I do not care at all that my in-kind response turns some people off.
minus-squareDaft_ish@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoLol… kinda reminds of something… Wikipedia?
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·10 months agoAs scrambled as your brain is, anything could.
minus-squareDaft_ish@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-210 months agomy comment is informative and sourced so that other people can understand it too, I do not care at all that my in-kind response turns some people off.
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·10 months agoAnd you’ve learned how to copy and paste! Big day for you.
minus-squareHanabie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·10 months agoYou’re one obnoxious fuck.
minus-squareDaft_ish@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoYeah just like you copy and pasted your ethos from Wikipedia.
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·10 months agoIf you’re this wrong about a two-syllable word, you shouldn’t worry about cracking the code.
minus-squareDaft_ish@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down5·10 months agoRolfcopter. This guy doesn’t know how to use Wikipedia.
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·10 months agoYou probably learned how to use Wikipedia from Wikipedia, that’s how you got so wrong.
minus-squareDaft_ish@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoNot bad actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_fact-checking
Lawl, 1) 25% of Wikipedia in English is unsourced
https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-wikimedia-is-using-machine-learning-to-spot-missing-citations/#:~:text=With crowdsourced content%2C citations are,articles lack a single citation.
lAwL 2) 77% of Wikipedia is written by 1% of its editors
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#:~:text=If the original information in,an apparent credibility to falsehood
RaWfL 3) once a source is credited once, it isn’t rechecked and can be used as a source on Wikipedia countless times
LmFAo 4) literally anyone saying something does not make it credible or true.
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It could even be someone purposefully poisoning the well
Kinda like how the government hires people to put terrible music over all the UFO footage so we perceive it as crazy people stuff.
Not at all. I’m responding to OP, and while my comment is informative and sourced so that other people can understand it too, I do not care at all that my in-kind response turns some people off.
Lol… kinda reminds of something… Wikipedia?
As scrambled as your brain is, anything could.
my comment is informative and sourced so that other people can understand it too, I do not care at all that my in-kind response turns some people off.
And you’ve learned how to copy and paste! Big day for you.
You’re one obnoxious fuck.
Source?
Yeah just like you copy and pasted your ethos from Wikipedia.
If you’re this wrong about a two-syllable word, you shouldn’t worry about cracking the code.
Rolfcopter. This guy doesn’t know how to use Wikipedia.
You probably learned how to use Wikipedia from Wikipedia, that’s how you got so wrong.
Not bad actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_fact-checking