• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Anybody who thinks Wikipedia is bad should have grown up on encyclopedias. Looking back at my childhood set, they are hilariously riddled with errors.

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      14 hours ago

      Yes, but they have professional errors. Not those errors that could have been written by just about anyone.

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        8 hours ago

        Right?! I’d rather have a bunch of autistic nerds patrolling their favorite subjects for stupid changes. Turns out that works pretty damned well.

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        12 hours ago

        People paid good money for those errors though! Not like those freeloading people doing it all for donations…