no banana@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 hours agoWikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square103fedilinkarrow-up1960
arrow-up1960imageWikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library media.piefed.worldno banana@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-213 hours agomessage-square103fedilink
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·8 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-up11·6 hours agoYes, but they have professional errors. Not those errors that could have been written by just about anyone.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·40 minutes 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-up6·5 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…