no banana@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 hours agoWikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library lemmy.worldimagemessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up11.1Karrow-down112
arrow-up11.08Karrow-down1imageWikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library lemmy.worldno banana@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 hours agomessage-square121fedilink
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·15 hours agoAnybody who thinks Wikipedia is bad should have grown up on encyclopedias. Looking back at my childhood set, they are hilariously riddled with errors.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·14 hours agoYes, but they have professional errors. Not those errors that could have been written by just about anyone.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoRight?! I’d rather have a bunch of autistic nerds patrolling their favorite subjects for stupid changes. Turns out that works pretty damned well.
minus-squareM0oP0o@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·12 hours agoPeople paid good money for those errors though! Not like those freeloading people doing it all for donations…
Anybody who thinks Wikipedia is bad should have grown up on encyclopedias. Looking back at my childhood set, they are hilariously riddled with errors.
Yes, but they have professional errors. Not those errors that could have been written by just about anyone.
Right?! I’d rather have a bunch of autistic nerds patrolling their favorite subjects for stupid changes. Turns out that works pretty damned well.
People paid good money for those errors though! Not like those freeloading people doing it all for donations…