• Polar
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    602 years ago

    Nah.

    I edited a page for a new OS update that was coming out. The page was FULL of misinformation, and I cleaned it up, linked official documentation as sources, etc.

    My edits were reverted by some butt hurt guy who originally wrote the page full of misinformation, 0 sources, and broken English.

    I reverted back to mine.

    He reverted back to his.

    He spammed my profile page calling me names, and then reported me to Wiki admins. I was told not to revert changes or I would be perma-banned. I explained how the original page was broken English, misinformation, and 0 sources were cited. They straight up told me they did NOT care.

    Stopped editing wiki pages, and stopped trusting them. They didn’t care about factual information. They just wanted to enforce their reverting rule.

    • finally debunked
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      22 years ago

      It’s mostly true for articles that do not have large public coverage. Otherwise the number of those who stubbornly fight for the truth will prevail

    • @SchizoDenji@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      Pro wrestling wiki pages used to have entrance themes, finishers and signature moves in the wrestler’s page.

      One power-mod removed it and it’s gone.

      People suck wiki’s cock on the Internet, but it’s a pretty dogshit site and I wish it dies so that a new and better alternative pops up.

      • @Vespair@lemm.ee
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        12 years ago

        Tbh those pieces of trivia don’t feel like encyclopedic information in the first place. A reader need not know specific intro songs to have an encyclopedic overview of wrestling, just that intro songs are often used.

        A list containing the specific intro songs is vastly more suited for a fandom repository than an encyclopedia.

      • @daltotron@lemmy.world
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        02 years ago

        That sucks, but I also kind of empathize with wiki mods, cause it’s really hard to know when to cut stuff down. I remember seeing a while back a bunch of people that migrated out from wikipedia to some completely unknown new wiki nobody will ever hear about, because they were working on chronicling all the roads in america with screenshots and notes of location and historical details about it all. Wikipedia didn’t really get it, as it’s more like a kind of academic and news aggregate, and there was nothing really there to aggregate, it was just an infodump of a bunch of different stuff. If wikipedia was a 1-1 map of the world, then it would be the size of the world. Or bigger, if you include historical stuff. No way you’re fitting all that on a 102 gig drive, or whatever the size of wikipedia is. Plus there’s hosting costs to consider, so it’s not like they could do that even if they really wanted.

    • @bigkix@lemm.ee
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      -12 years ago

      How dare you trash Wikipedia on Lemmy? Infidel like you should be sent to gulag.