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Re: Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

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Post by TZubiri »

h4kunamata wrote: post #7

Wikepedia, the most untrustworthy source ever, cases and cases of people who gained access to the article and completely changed it with fake information: 1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt. 2. A…

A technology that is used up to a million times a day is bad, here's the proof, two times it has failed:

Re: Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

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Post by glenstein »

TZubiri wrote: post #11
h4kunamata wrote: post #7

Wikepedia, the most untrustworthy source ever, cases and cases of people who gained access to the article and completely changed it with fake information: 1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt. 2. A…

A technology that is used up to a million times a day is bad, here's the proof, two times it has failed:

A tale as old as time. I don't just want to know the instances of harm, I want to know how representative they are supposed to be. And I think people who have thought through the latter question aren't the types to do the former.

Re: Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

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Post by hootz »

h4kunamata wrote: post #7

Wikepedia, the most untrustworthy source ever, cases and cases of people who gained access to the article and completely changed it with fake information: 1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt. 2. A…

Yeah, and all search engines can index a website with fake info to the top of the results for a question, so that makes search engines a terrible tool for looking up information. /s

Wikipedia never was a definitive or authoritative source on anything, that is by design, that is on the official guidelines. You can't cite Wikipedia on Wikipedia, you must provide sources for information, if no sources exist for an excerpt of an article then it must be tagged as citation needed.

Re: Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

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Post by moehm »

Oh, nice execution. I had the same idea during the pandemic. Though my aesthetics are completely different as I focused more on the discussions on HN, as they often have some golden nuggets. Yours is of course way more polished, as I basically just slapped bootstrap on my database front end.

https://www.mostdiscussed.com/

Interesting how different our "popularity score" is though: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular

You don't seem to group them by category, right? I found it quite interesting: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular/topics

Btw, your "new" tab seems to be broken, as it is showing articles from 2019.

Re: Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

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Post by TZubiri »

glenstein wrote: post #12
TZubiri wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A technology that is used up to a million times a day is bad, here's the proof, two times it has failed:

A tale as old as time. I don't just want to know the instances of harm, I want to know how representative they are supposed to be. And I think people who have thought through the latter question aren't the types to do the former.

In neither cases it was really a flaw of wikipedia, the model is clear, contributions should include content and sources, and it's the responsibility of the reader to check the reference.

I get it if bullshit is uploaded and a layman is fooled, but both cases involve trained professionals who know very damn well what a source is, judges and journalists, and it was principally their failure, not of Wikipedia.

Re: Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

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Post by protocolture »

h4kunamata wrote: post #7

Wikepedia, the most untrustworthy source ever, cases and cases of people who gained access to the article and completely changed it with fake information: 1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt. 2. A…

>1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt.

Honestly one of the best Wikipedia talk pages I had ever read, during the controversy. I read amazing arguments well put from both sides, but personally fell on the "Yes its fine to call him a samurai" side based on a very good argument about how the language was applied in that time period. But I felt I could strongly grasp the other sides argument too.

> A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai.

Playable character in Samurai Warriors 5.

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