Wikipedia is trustworth as any other enciclopedy, it has a community of editors who filter the content and check its veracity. There are always those who publish falsehoods, but this is quickly removed, sometimes in a matter of minutes.
I dont think you read the linked page. There was a completely made up article on Wikipedia for more than 10 years. Any real encyclopedia with professional editors would have caught such nonsense long before publishing.
Wikipedia has more articles as any other enciclopedia, apart of articles which are updated nearly in real time. Even if there is an article about an toaster which is an hoax and which has 0 intrests, among several millons of excelent articles, ut don’t rest any trustworth of the Wiki.
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I mean, Wikipedia probably wouldn’t survive if the internet disappeared.
huh? you can torrent a snapshot of the whole thing, and people all over the world do.
in a post-internet world there will be lots of wikipedias. it would be really nice if they manage to fix their data model to use a DVCS before the collapse, to make it easier to do merges between the different forks, but even if they don’t… wikipedia will live on. (As will the factoid that Alan MacMasters invented the electric toaster…)
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Great, another hitpiece by someone whose claim to fame is trashing on public work.
The tl;dr is someone made a falsey article. This is like saying someone uploaded malware to Github, therefore Open Source Software is insecure.
For further reading, because I cba to defend Wikipedia, see Wikipedia’s Notability or Reliable sources guidelines.
This is like saying someone uploaded malware to Github, therefore Open Source Software is insecure.
It would be like that if someone had put made-up information on a talk page or their user page. Information in the main namespace is supposed to be patrolled and checked for references, which is the point of the article. Your analogy is dishonest.
Or in terms of the GitHub analogy, this would be like malware making its way into somewhere like a distro’s package manager.
So, like npm…
Which is why NPM is such a terrible package manager and devs of mission critical codebases think twice about trusting it to not screw them over.
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The described case ia only one of many problems with Wikipedia. Another problem is that its organization is completely intransparent, with soke anonymous powerusers being able to revert any edits which they dont like. As a result, there is a very strong political bias in articles about politics or history.
