From: "J.B. Nicholson" <jbn@forestfield.org>
To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: Wikipedia extolled as an aide for getting history correct
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:07:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fcc1a75f-b739-b19c-1d67-81bb52c8c170@forestfield.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <orletqg1uo.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org>
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> [Wikipedia is] definitely not neutral ground.
I concur; there are different groups interested in presenting a particular view of
things via Wikipedia articles. As I understand it, whose view is seen by many comes
down to either who is connected to Wikipedia admins or who spends time reverting
challenging edits.
> But then, despite all of its failings, Wikipedia, like democracy, sucks,
> though they suck less than the known alternatives.
And, much like Firefox, Wikipedia articles are licensed such that if one wants to one
could base a new work by copying something that went before and making changes to it.
Firefox, for all of its problems, is still free software and thus very well-suited
for being the base for other browsers. TorBrowser is an example of that.
Perhaps someone has done something comparable for Wikipedia as well?
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-16 21:46 Wikipedia extolled as an aide for getting history correct Akira Urushibata
2022-06-17 22:36 ` Greg Farough
2022-06-18 1:17 ` Davis Remmel via libreplanet-discuss
2022-06-18 6:06 ` J Leslie Turriff
2022-07-18 6:44 ` Ade Malsasa Akbar
2022-06-18 7:12 ` Lars Noodén
2022-06-21 2:57 ` Alexandre Oliva
2022-06-21 23:07 ` J.B. Nicholson [this message]
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