RoadHazard
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Wikipedia is down
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Alex Anderson
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Up for me
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I guess it's a local outage then (I'm in Sweden), I suppose they have servers in various locations around the world.
Maiden Voyage
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Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
i can see wikipedia.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
My first thought lolI knew I should have forked over that $1
Pegasus Actual
Member
That one time I threw them like 10 bucks is my greatest shameI knew I should have forked over that $1
Wildebeest
Member
When the new "secure" web comes out you will only be able to access unreliable and dangerous information sources like wikipedia and not reliable, safe, advertiser backed sources like youtube and twitter.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Working for me, what you on OP?
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I have given a few bucks, but the huge BEGGING banners they do every now and then actually make me less inclined to donate. Very annoying.
Maiden Voyage
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VN1X
Banned
Don't give money to Wikipedia lol. Aside from the obvious biases that are present they are not exactly short on funding either.
Specially when most of the money doesn't go into Wikipedia but it's rather used to fund degenerate leftist activism:
Thread by @echetus on Thread Reader App
@echetus: If you use Wikipedia, you've seen pop-ups like this. If you're like me, you may have donated as a result. Wikipedia is an amazing website, and the appeals seem heartfelt. But I've now learnt the money...…
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Works for me.
People working there still get paid and the CEO probably makes millions. No different than any other company.
I've never donated. And never will. The vast majority of "non-profit" organizations are just as profit oriented as Coke and Pepsi. The more money they make the better. The difference is that a non-profit is supposed to get rid of or donate excess profits to their causes so they arent banking it year after year into a giant pile of cash.Specially when most of the money doesn't go into Wikipedia but it's rather used to fund degenerate leftist activism:
Thread by @echetus on Thread Reader App
@echetus: If you use Wikipedia, you've seen pop-ups like this. If you're like me, you may have donated as a result. Wikipedia is an amazing website, and the appeals seem heartfelt. But I've now learnt the money...…
People working there still get paid and the CEO probably makes millions. No different than any other company.
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
Specially when most of the money doesn't go into Wikipedia but it's rather used to fund degenerate leftist activism:
Thread by @echetus on Thread Reader App
@echetus: If you use Wikipedia, you've seen pop-ups like this. If you're like me, you may have donated as a result. Wikipedia is an amazing website, and the appeals seem heartfelt. But I've now learnt the money...…
Ok, but who is this guy claiming all this stuff and why should I believe him? I see a lot of claims, not a lot of sources.
West Texas CEO
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I never donated.
Korranator
Member
I wish it was down...worthless biased activist website that tries to pass off lies as facts.
Hip Hop
Member
explain please
0neAnd0nly
Member
I will say that most of my college classes allowed you to use wiki, as long as the info you were sourcing was sourced inside the wiki article.
Most important topics, have nearly every section sourced by multiple sources, so it still served it’s purpose well.
Toots
Gold Member
A long time ago i was watching the tv program Tracks and there was an itw with one actor telling another that he went on his wikipedia page and found out that the date of birth was wrong. He reached to wikipedia and told them this but the mod who responded, the one who wrote the page, basically told him to piss off and that he knew better than him.
Wikipedia is a tremendous tool for all, but anyone who thinks it is some kind of infallible wisdom dispenser is gonna have a bad time.
Wildebeest
Member
Fun search engine autocomplete. "Celebrities who lie about their"
Mistake
Member
It kind of depends what it is for me, especially in topics that are contentious. No reason to see it as legitimate when so many people have biased incentives to edit a page, and those edits are controlled by the mods. I see it on other sites too, such as "page created 2010, last edited 2021." And it's obvious why. At least when you grab a book off the shelf, you know it's not going to change for a bit, and future edits or revisions are more easy to recognize.
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Toots
Gold Member
I get what you mean, but in this case it was really an issue of "i know your own life better than you do". The actor was young and not much of a celebrity, i'm pretty sure he wasn't lying (his real date of birth might have made him older than the one on wikipedia i can't remember).
It was an exemple of the "we believe in truth not facts" attitude prevailing on wikipedia since pretty much the beginning...
mxbison
Member
Great thing is you can share your knowledge and correct the mistakes!
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mxbison
Member
Well you can scroll to the bottom and see the sources used for the article.
It's obviously not perfect but still better than most of the other stuff you can find online.