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Wikipedia, what's the point?

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Anyone tried contributing to a wiki page and had shitloads of pedants reverse the 'edits'? You can put a factual statement on a page such a 'night follws day, day follows night' and some cunt deletes it on the grounds a 'source' isnt cited, it's a personal opinion so shouldnt be posted or, there's a conflict of interest because you're a fucking astronomer or some other nebulous response!

 

And to top it of, the head cunt of wikipedia keeps sending you a message when you visit the site saying please, please give us some money so we can keep the lights on!

 

What is the fucking point?!

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10 hours ago, dockers_strike said:

Anyone tried contributing to a wiki page and had shitloads of pedants reverse the 'edits'? You can put a factual statement on a page such a 'night follws day, day follows night' and some cunt deletes it on the grounds a 'source' isnt cited, it's a personal opinion so shouldnt be posted or, there's a conflict of interest because you're a fucking astronomer or some other nebulous response!

 

And to top it of, the head cunt of wikipedia keeps sending you a message when you visit the site saying please, please give us some money so we can keep the lights on!

 

What is the fucking point?!

 

If I could be bothered to register on Wikipedia, I'd delete that just for the spelling mistake alone.

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My biggest regret in life is that Wikipedia and smartphones didn't exist when I was in school. I'm dyslexic so the way you learn in school, is exactly the way I can't learn. I blagged my way through exams by buying revision books and scrawling notes on scraps of paper then memorising key words 10 minutes before I went into exams, wrote the words down as soon as I got in there and then embellished around them as best I could. That, and other blagging methods.

 

A good example was a science question of what conditions could compromise the immune system, I put AIDS obviously because Mark Fowler was struggling at the time, and removal of the spleen, because Sean Bean tells Harrison Ford in Patriot Games that having his daughter's removed will 'make it difficult for her to fight off infection, won't it Ryan?'.

 

Without telly and scraps of paper I'd have been fucked. If I'd had Wikipedia, I'd be the head of Stanford by now.

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Numero Veinticinco Grand Master

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What’s the point in Wikipedia. Well, I mean, it’s an utterly amazing encyclopaedia that is free to everyone, ad-free, and reviewed by a community of hundreds of thousands of volunteers. It also has almost 2 billion unique users every single month. Such a large collection of organised information is one of the few things that seems genuinely brilliant about the Internet. I guess the point is to give free, sourced information to anybody with an internet connection. 

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1 hour ago, Numero said:

What’s the point in Wikipedia. Well, I mean, it’s an utterly amazing encyclopaedia that is free to everyone, ad-free, and reviewed by a community of hundreds of thousands of volunteers. It also has almost 2 billion unique users every single month. Such a large collection of organised information is one of the few things that seems genuinely brilliant about the Internet. I guess the point is to give free, sourced information to anybody with an internet connection. 

I think I've learnt that you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Most of my friends and family have become conspiracy nuts. Wikipedia its vast amount of information exists mostly to inform someone of where a celebrity was born. Its not whats the point of Wikipedia its whats the point of people. Bad dickheads most of them.

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25 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

I think I've learnt that you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Most of my friends and family have become conspiracy nuts. Wikipedia its vast amount of information exists mostly to inform someone of where a celebrity was born. Its not whats the point of Wikipedia its whats the point of people. Bad dickheads most of them.

Some people are bad dickheads, there’s no doubt about it. Lots aren’t though. It’s just that the dickheads shout the loudest. 

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On 27/12/2020 at 00:19, dockers_strike said:

Anyone tried contributing to a wiki page and had shitloads of pedants reverse the 'edits'? You can put a factual statement on a page such a 'night follws day, day follows night' and some cunt deletes it on the grounds a 'source' isnt cited, it's a personal opinion so shouldnt be posted or, there's a conflict of interest because you're a fucking astronomer or some other nebulous response!

 

And to top it of, the head cunt of wikipedia keeps sending you a message when you visit the site saying please, please give us some money so we can keep the lights on!

 

What is the fucking point?!


Whilst I would agree “Boris is a cunt” is factual, you can’t be that surprised that someone is removing it from every paragraph of his page. You need to be subtler

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