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   Xauri'EL Zwaan (xauriel@mastodon.nz)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 10:15:35 JST Xauri'EL Zwaan

   (sigh) so I got a comment on bluesky about how Wikipedia is evil because it's not progressive enough

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   yeah, Wikipedia is edited by literal millions of people every day. Its inevitable bias is probably not going to perfectly reflect every attitude you wish it would

   but what's the alternative?

   does our human knowledge base fracture like all the rest of our media?

   we get a Conservapedia, a Leftopedia, a Centristpedia, but no basic knowledge base most of which we can agree on?

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     Xauri'EL Zwaan (xauriel@mastodon.nz)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 10:15:38 JST Xauri'EL Zwaan

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     Like all media, take Wikipedia with a grain of salt and form your own opinions. However, tearing down a knowledge resource 99% of which is reliable and uncontroversial because you don't like the ideological bent of the other 1% is the fucking *definition* of the nirvana fallacy. And I promise you, if Wikipedia were to disappear one day, you *would not like* what came along to replace it