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🍒🐳 @ahgaselaIuz
Reported 2020-10-20 02:25:35
Uh this isnt exactly theway to go about it either..... wikipedia pages for certain wars or historical figures are extremely washed down by propaganda, for example. Just because people can edit it easily it won't be exempt of agendas, twisted data or agendas.
sakura @sakkurareads
Reported 2020-10-20 02:19:35
The problem with wikipedia is that everyone can edit it... including those who are not even credible. Wikipedia do not have standards on who their editors are going to be.
Fake Mustache @Bent0916
Reported 2020-10-20 02:19:22
@natcombigirl https://t.co/yOaZ5R7OHw
Wikipedia has a severe problem with "powerusers", people locking down articles or entire topics and spending obsessive amounts of time controlling and editing them. They often use bots to auto-revert anyone else's changes. They bully other users.
Al Mutasabbir Al Awwal ~|🏴|~ @MAtaroach
Reported 2020-10-20 02:07:59
@steverj1967 @berg25_sheldon @ChristianToront @debbie97976874 The execution was not ordered by Muhammad. Read the sources again. It was ordered by the Bani Aws. An ally of the Banu Quraydah. The judgement was also made based on Jewish law.
Try again. Its literally written down in wikipedia as well.
*＊✿❀ 𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 ❀✿＊* @Fries_kiwi
Reported 2020-10-20 02:03:58
Trading CMBR (Callmehbob ring)
IA 1 : TeddyZ + 1 add
IA 2 : DV set, PSF set, and some few other adds
IA 3 : a halo with some good adds
(just IA's) (pls don't send hate)
Comment down your offer
~ Be patient
~ Be kind
~ Offer something fair
(photo from wikipedia) https://t.co/XMOa0YCZrL
*＊✿❀ 𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 ❀✿＊* @Fries_kiwi
Reported 2020-10-20 01:58:34
Trading CMBR (Callmehbob ring)
IA 1 : TeddyZ + 1 add
IA 2 : DV set, PSF set, and some few other adds
IA 3 : a halo
(just IA's) (pls don't send hate)
Comment down your offer
~ Be patient
~ Be kind
~ Offer something fair
(photo from wikipedia) https://t.co/27hUCtyazR
Ren Fae ✿ they/them🩸🦇 @Clownkisss
Reported 2020-10-20 01:36:07
****o it is 1:35 am and I am going down a rabbit hole reading the Wikipedia page for Carmilla
Ale Alcalá @ColeAlek
Reported 2020-10-20 01:27:07
@endlessbagel @shirouofjustice Someone should just fix the Wikipedia article already
Ann Ladenberger🤦♀️😱 @AnnLadenberger
Reported 2020-10-20 01:07:31
@livecut @NUTGATHERIN Did it start to overweight slave states or was it to help out the West? Never mind, I'll read the Wikipedia article. I don't know enough to discuss but I really think it needs revisitation, the whole issue.
The_Wanderer @TheWand36470391
Reported 2020-10-20 01:03:13
@rivetdrunk @thevivafrei The definition in question appeared on Wikipedia back in May 2020. And was removed shortly after the livestream that sparked the issue.
heartspocky @ take it sleazy @heartspocky
Reported 2020-10-20 00:58:13
@Sujurean It's actually the opposite problem afaik-- articles about notable women, lgbt+ people, etc, tend to get deleted for not being notable enough. I'm not hating on wikipedia, OP just used misrepresented a subject they admittedly don't know much about by flubbing their example.
Sean Philabaum @seanbomb13
Reported 2020-10-20 00:47:16
@evilvillain1231 @PetriClub @semperposts @liz_franczak It's entirely possible.
If he was there from day 1 of wikipedia, with a constant typing speed of 216 wpm, the current record, he could've typed over 2 billion words by now.
If the man gets all his nutrients and energy from writing articles, sleep and eat aren't an issue.
Simon Willison @simonw
Reported 2020-10-20 00:38:44
@kwast Ooh hadn't seen that one. For CSV this may be a problem (quoting Wikipedia):
"One disadvantage of Ascii85 is that encoded data may contain escape characters such as backslash and quote, which have special meaning in many programming languages and in some text-based protocols"
Leny Wagner blocks terfs and other authoritarians @LenyHRWagner
Reported 2020-10-20 00:14:06
@natcombigirl You can’t cite a tertiary source in research.
That’s the main issue with Wikipedia. It’s a great place to start your research, but not to end it.
Good academic research relies on primary and secondary sources.
You can’t cite an encyclopedia or any other tertiary source.
mind is moving @mind_is_moving
Reported 2020-10-20 00:08:28
@natcombigirl Here is the Wikipedia entry for ***ushima, Japan. Guess the number of times it mentions the nuclear plant meltdown? ZERO. It mentions the tsunami once, but only says it led to a water outage! Wikipedia is now thoroughly corrupted and broken.
https://t.co/ZJV9CgiGiL
Muzzled Professor @MuzzledProf
Reported 2020-10-20 00:04:45
Nothing sends me down a Wikipedia hole like an exclave. They’re fascinating!
Shinobu on Patrol @OnShinobu
Reported 2020-10-20 00:03:21
@ALtheAstute Citation needed I do mean from an actual Japanese domain not from a Wikipedia that you continuously double down own. https://t.co/TWUyhuTEek
Сыч🦉 @sych_clr
Reported 2020-10-20 00:01:09
@whathow27 "No one can twist **** without ppl noticing" remember when some guy wrote the entirety of "scots" wikipedia in broken english because he didn't actually speak scots?
ker🐝 @likeable_energy
Reported 2020-10-19 23:59:04
Another let down of 2020 is that someone removed “rapist” from the Wikipedia page of the guy that preyed on me and continued to bother me after I turned 18. It was right at the top. Now you have to scroll to see what a s***bag he was.
Timothy Duran @TimothyLDuran
Reported 2020-10-19 23:51:51
@BlackHumor712 @TeaAyyAreAyy @natcombigirl My point that I explained further down on this thread is that we shouldn't stop at Wikipedia when it comes to political theory. We should be willing to read further beyond brief Wikipedia summaries. They can be a good start, but should not the end.
https://t.co/ubRC0yVK4Q
Paige 'Chrysalis' F @PaigesConscious
Reported 2020-10-19 23:39:30
I have fallen down a wikipedia hotel for old historic hotels and I'm ready to start my new life as a hotel nerd.
nathan @emiliasmonkey
Reported 2020-10-19 23:20:00
when i googled what the texture of smegma is wikipedia had a big picture of a ****** in the middle of the page and im not scrolling down any further
attacus @attacus_au
Reported 2020-10-19 22:58:00
@daamon_parker @kelseyvh sure! what I meant was, if the QR code was a link to the Wikipedia article about paperclips, would the prompt show you "https://t.co/D0q1RTnVYP", or just "https://t.co/7Fa24A2MOL"?
if you can't recollect, no problem - thanks for answering the poll!
Michael Leone @MichaelJLeone
Reported 2020-10-19 22:53:20
@FOARP @pablo_gps @thesmoosh @ClarityatWork @jmissig @Pinboard @Wikipedia 1) This is begging the question. The whole point is that Wiki's definition IS the problem.
2) This is anecdotal and proves nothing. Just because it happens to men too doesn't mean it's not happening disproportionately to women.
uwu: Unsupported Worm Unicode (U+1FAB1) @P3t34
Reported 2020-10-19 22:48:30
speaking of wikipedia, it has a m***ive problem of including known counterfactual information in order to "refute" it, when the counterfactual information has no value and should just have been omitted. this happens so often as the introduction to a section! https://t.co/qzrPMUwkxL
🎃 Scary Frankenstein 🎃 @teddyweinstein
Reported 2020-10-19 22:48:29
Feeling down on yourself? At least your Wikipedia page doesn’t look like this.
Mal 😎 chomp chomp @noloryno
Reported 2020-10-19 22:40:28
nearly half of Wikipedia articles written in the Scots language were just written in Scottish twitter dialect by a US teen, and they can’t just fix it https://t.co/b4C7e10K9z
Goatstein @MandelaFace
Reported 2020-10-19 22:11:01
Me at the mic, set to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl when my decision to not wear a belt or underwear causes my pants to fall down and expose my tiny ****, which involuntarily ejaculates: Mayhaps you should all visit the wikipedia page on logical fallacies
Spooky Kurri ★ Trapped in Vtuber Hell @KurriTweets
Reported 2020-10-19 22:02:16
Decentralized knowledge is good - yes, this is good, you're right
Anyone being able to edit anything and fix problems is good - Eh... I see where you're getting at, questionable
Wikipedia is good cause it's decentralized and anyone can edit - Fam... No...
witches.live @Unseelie
Reported 2020-10-19 22:01:12
@natcombigirl No? Because you can't trust everyone to behave. We especially can't trust anonymous people on the internet. EVER.
If Wikipedia was such a great resource - where were all the pages about women's achievements in science and arts? Or Black history? Then there's The Scottish Problem.
maya @mayaepice
Reported 2020-10-19 21:35:03
I only experienced this in hs. My college professors had no issue with Wikipedia bc if I used it as a source, they would check to make sure it’s credible.
living la vida sweatpants @rawalkerWSU
Reported 2020-10-19 21:29:20
@QueenMab87 Pretty sure tertiary sources are not appropriate for academic use past about 5th or 6th grade anyway.
See? I didn't even have to mention the problem of Wikipedia generating its own references. 🤷♀️
JustPattyB @JustPattyB
Reported 2020-10-19 21:29:00
@ElementaLatina @shahidmikhael @MarianMorticia Had to hunt. Was spelling/word issue. Here is the wikipedia link in it:
https://t.co/TNFrdQE7O7
Aria @LilMxTangent
Reported 2020-10-19 21:13:50
One of the best and most thoughtful explanations (I've seen) for why Wikipedia (despite often being renowned as being broadly more "accurate" as a reference text) needs to considered/treated differently as an academic reference.
Dr. Nora Munro 💛🐝🏡🍷🐈 @NoraMunro
Reported 2020-10-19 21:00:33
@Xhumed @Xisor @Rbyn_Rox @AnaMardoll Unfortunately "Scots is basically English, just with some different words and funny spelling" is exactly what led to the problem with the Scots wikipedia. It's going to be touchy for some people.
I'm not offended, and I hope others see and accept your apology. 😀
chatham harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison
Reported 2020-10-19 20:53:49
As always, the real worth of a Wikipedia article is in its sources, not its content. One teenager playing around on a low-traffic Wiki isn't adding the same kind of value, even if their edits aren't inaccurate, unless they're backing it up with reputable sourcing.
実偽Migi @ Spooky Month~ @YuezhengMigi
Reported 2020-10-19 20:43:45
@natcombigirl There's a lovely section called the "reference section". Yah, I'm an admin at a wikia. It's not wikipedia, but same thing: we deep clean everything and make sure no messes are around or else. o3o
Wikipedia admins and editors /notice/ if something went down.
roy 🐍🍁 @ohmyposse
Reported 2020-10-19 20:28:40
encyclopedia, wikipedia, guide books, any tertiary sources.. students shouldn't cite them. scrolling down a bit to the bibliography links of original sources doesn't hurt or cost you
StratMan @StratManSRQ
Reported 2020-10-19 20:26:46
Please help cuz I don’t know Jack about Twitter. WHY IS EDDIE VAN HALEN LISTED AS A PAST MEMBER OF VAN HALEN ON THEIR WIKIPEDIA PAGE?? Can someone fix that PLEASE!!!! THAT IS DISGUSTING AND ****ES ME OFF!
StratMan @StratManSRQ
Reported 2020-10-19 20:25:55
@Roth_Army
cuz I don’t know Jack about Twitter. WHY IS EDDIE VAN HALEN LISTED AS A PAST MEMBER OF VAN HALEN ON THEIR WIKIPEDIA PAGE?? Can someone fix that PLEASE!!!! THAT IS DISGUSTING AND ****ES ME OFF!
Kamtum 7000 @Kamtum7
Reported 2020-10-19 20:19:52
@OurHiddenHistry wikipedia has it problem but "dictatorship" CMON! you are being histrionic
💐 syd 💐 @ SETETH TITS FUCK YEAH @sydnonary
Reported 2020-10-19 20:14:04
The issue is that you don’t know *who* is editing the Wikipedia pages. Teachers and professors aren’t protecting you from the bored 13 year olds, they’re protecting you from the educated neo-nazis who know how to use syntax to their advantage to push their agenda.
Nick Carper @ncarper
Reported 2020-10-19 20:09:33
@jessrgpol I'll have you know this thread has already lead me down a sad, sad Wikipedia hole.
https://t.co/9yGE8OZZSx
🎃Spooky Ricky👻 @Ricardo_Knows
Reported 2020-10-19 20:01:00
I went down a rabbit hole on Wikipedia and man Maryland did Ralph Fridgen dirty. Turned the Terps around from 2-10 to 9-4 and a bowl win over a good ECU team and they fired him.
𝙊𝙇𝘼🏹 @olamoii
Reported 2020-10-19 20:00:45
They often start off the relationship very strong. There is a term for it. It’s called love bombing. They love bomb the **** out of you. Pun fully intended. Wikipedia even has a page breaking love bombing down in great detail.
Haywire Jordan @HaywireJordan
Reported 2020-10-19 19:58:48
@natcombigirl @OSPyoutube's Red actually recommends you go to Wikipedia, because they have a wellspring of resources you can use to track down books you can buy talking about, say, the Greek Pantheon, or the natural evolution of Robin Hood. It's great for geting a good starting point!
em @civetta
Reported 2020-10-19 19:58:32
To save me transcribing, Wikipedia has the actual quote: "It is not addressed to white people primarily. Though it doesn't put you down in any way...it simply ignores you. For my people need all the inspiration and love that they can get."
flense-a-man best! @jessamyn
Reported 2020-10-19 19:56:04
@kel_karpinski @brimwats Seriously. I mean I appreciate people trying to rep for Wikipedia to people who think it's all garbage, but then... another layer down part of it IS garbage. Complicated.
Ghost Snappy @sweatybird
Reported 2020-10-19 19:55:02
one day ya gonna half to let go of the "why can't i use wikipedia as a source" complaint and realize you can just scroll down to the page's cited references and work from there instead lol
Brandon Martin-Moore @BrandonMartinM2
Reported 2020-10-19 19:54:44
@BothersBar I've seen The Vault pop up in a few places recently, seemingly by coincidence. First was because I fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole as usual, so I watched an episode of it, then a discussion started on the Ash The Bash Discord about how a stream version would work.