Wikipedia Co-Founder No Longer Recommends His Online Encyclopedia

NewsDetectives.Substack.com ^ | November 21, 2023 | Matthieu Lumiere

[Responsibility2nd]

Correct. Wikipedia is no different than AI.

It uses human involvement to produce it’s results.

GIGO

[dhs12345]

Still useful for generic stuff. BTW, it is free if you don’t donate. :)

[al baby]

TMZ when i question if a celeb has died or not

[Twotone]

Your letter is perfect for sending to congressmen & senators. They need to know this stuff & they need to be shutting down these agencies. NOW.

[CodeToad]

Wiki is so inaccurate that it cannot be used as a reference for college papers.

[CIB-173RDABN]

I use IMDB.com for movies and TV shows.

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I find the IMDB site too “busy” when all I want is a quick overview of a movie or tv program. (Besides they want me to create an account and I would rather not have too many accounts just hanging out there).

[metmom]

wikipedia is a good portal when you want to learn about a topic. It has quick links to related articles so you can get to what you want to learn. You just have to confirm any “facts” you learn for accuracy.

Exactly.

wikipedia has its uses. It's just not written in stone truth.

[jdt1138]

The US State department has a group that is responsible for adding and editing Wikipedia information.

[marron]

It’s a very good first stop as long as the subject has no relevance to current political issues. In that case it’s laughable.

That said, within those limits, I use it all the time.

[lowbridge]

Indeed. A lot of years ago I tried editing the bio of Rush Limbaugh. Contained in his Wikipedia entry was a falsehood about what he did and said on his old tv show. The source for this inaccurate description of events was a column in the Washington post by a liberal Rush hating columnist.

Armed with a partial, but official transcript of the real event, I edited Rush’s bio to reflect the truth of what really happened. A wiki editor, an official one, scrubbed my edit and put back the old falsehoods, justifying his action with the fact that his (inaccurate) version was in print someplace. Mine was not.

I edited it again, he edited it back. He then shut down Rush’s bio from being edited for 6 months.

I don’t know how many years passed before a video clip of the real version on Rush’s show surfaced somewhere on youtube. It positively, accurately matched my transcript word for word.

Someone then edited Rush’s bio to reflect that true version of events and it stayed up for quite a while. But I don’t know how long time passed before the first inaccurate version of events as described by the Washington post columnist was put back. And its still there the last time I checked.

And they beg me for donations on their site.

[caver]

IMDB does have a lot of info.
I have never had to create an account there.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Libloather]

It turns out the site was infiltrated by the CIA and FBI many years ago.

The site is currently asking for donations. Would that be considered a bribe? Betcha they take chicom loot as well.

[Jane Long]

Interesting article ping.

[Liz]

Bribed to change narratives?

[STARLIT]

Tks. I’ll read..

[STARLIT]

Really informative thread Cusp. Jane sent a ping to me and I wanted to extend the information on to you. I think you’ll be very glad to get all of what Twotone has listed on Wikipedia.