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[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Wonder why we were taught to stay away from wikipedia instead of being taught how to use it properly 🤔. Idk how to verify sources so i trust wikipedia at face value, sorry ;(

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It just isn't easy at all. If someone editorializes a Wikipedia article, they can:

make claims without citation,
cite a source which does not support the claims,
misrepresent a source by citing it out of context, and
perhaps most devious of all: Just not talk about aspects that they don't like.

You could write an entire Wikipedia article on Adolf Hitler with perfectly cited sources, which never mentions the genocide, the warmongering, that he lost the war etc..

You can use Wikipedia as an entrypoint for research, but you have to actually read the sources and find additional sources, independently from that.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You could, but it would be reverted within 24 hours.

And by hours I mean minutes.

Perhaps even seconds if it's during CET waking hours.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It depends al lot in the subject and the amount of people with some knowledge about it. About hitler it would last only a very short time, but there have been prank pages that survived for months

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

True. I was thinking about the Hitler one in particular, as I'm sure someone would quickly notice such an extensive edit on such a notable topic.

In fact, I wonder if there are bots or something for detecting these edits...

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