this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

hell yea cohost representation

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I can totally edit an encyclopedia. Just cross shit out and write in whatever I want with whiteout and a pen.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"and that's written by verified experts that aren't anonymous."

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They aren't written by experts. They are written by the chrapest writer that could be found. The error rates on a traditional encyclopedia is about the same as on Wikipedia. The only thing people love more than making shit up os calling people out when you know they are making shit up. Wikipedia is just as acceptable an academic source as Encyclopedia Brittanica. You can use it for some non-critical tangentially related information, but it's a starting off point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

There's some articles on math topics that are essentially textbook quality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I got markers...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"... and as such was already out of date by the time you got it."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

And more than likely was more than a decade out of date when you first opened it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not nobody. My dad got a yearly honorarium for updating the section of the Encyclopedia Brittanica in his area of expertise. We'd also get a free set, and donate the previous one to a school library. I'm sure there were hundreds of others like him back in those days.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

honorarium

New word for me

Should work for some high-brow accusations one may want to make about the promiscuity of another’s mother

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Kind of related but KiwiX is an app that can allow people to view Wikipedia while offline. All you need is the Wikipedia ZIM file that comes in various sizes. There's also several other Wikis that are available for download.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yea legit I saw this post natively a few hours ago and questioned if I had opened Lemmy or not, I may also be tired af