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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.

Exactly. If someone thinks this is a fatal flaw, they're kind of telling on themselves about the extent to which they check sources.

But also I think just as a fact of the matter Wiki is not frequently incorrect or manipulated (though there are exceptions). It's no coincidence that people who want to peddle misinformation are suddenly up in arms against Wikipedia's supposed bias.

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

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>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…

Wait, did people really get worked up over a playable character in a video game? How is Ubisoft changing history or whatever with this? Its a silly assasin game where you murder a lot of people?

Yes they did. Not to mention its always been about a secret murder cult, and their enemy, people who use DNA to travel through time.

Any angle they can open a new front in the culture war with is enumerated immediately.

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

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Which is denser on information, faster to read, more accessible and works without javascript. I did whitelist the orangecrumb domain for JS temporarily though. Does look neat, but not the the sort of interface I'm into.

"Which is denser on information" Depends, it mostly shows those entries that were not popular or even flagged.

... true. it's frustrating that /from supports site= but not points= and /over supports points= but not site=

Sometimes HN is a bit too minimalist for no good reason IMO.

Well, there's always running curl on the API. Maybe someone out there has made a nice minimalist non-JS interface that merges /from and /over or otherwise uses the API in a simple HTML wrapper.

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