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Looks stable?
It's impressive that it's stable considering there's probably a lot less to do on Wikipedia today than there was in 2007.
Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English
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#12One step closer to the Ancient Database[0]. Which one of you is going to build the holo room?
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#13I’m a big fan of Wikipedia. It’s not perfect, and plenty of pages are outright bad, but repeatedly clicking “random page” [1] is a great source of entertainment to me. There’s so much info out there, yet I reliably get something surprising, interesting, or funny within maybe 10 random pages. And because it’s random, I learn things way outside my normal interests.
Try it if you find yourself mindlessly scrolling! It’s pretty easy but you find way more cool things (that typically people don’t broadly know about, if you like that sort of thing).
I donate a few bucks a month and it’s well worth it.
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#14Wikipedia is an incredible achievement. It's one of the only information sources I find to be consistently useful across a broad range of topics. It's also one of the only remaining sources I feel to be mostly trustworthy. These days I append either "wikipedia" or "reddit" to most of my Google searches in order to get useful information. There's so much SEO'd garbage out there, but Wikipedia remains a breath of fresh…
If you're worried about SEO and manipulation, Wikipedia is decent but Reddit is awful. It's pretty well-established by now that astroturfing and influence campaigns are rampant on Reddit, and in some particularly bad cases like /r/worldnews have taken over subreddits completely.
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#15It's easy to forget how amazing Wikipedia is because people are so used to it. It's also an anomaly in todays internet landscape - no ads, popups or auto-play videos. I think it's literally the best website in existence.
If you suggested 20 years ago that there will soon exist a free online encyclopedia, which has two orders of magnitude more words than Britannica, is updated daily and is mostly unbiased - they would probably think it's impossible.
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#16Unfortunately, the .ORG domain registry is being sold to a private equity firm. Could Wikipedia just switch to .com? How technically difficult would it be?
If the Wikimedia foundation lost their .org domains, not only would they need to find a new domain, but they wouldn’t be able to redirect requests from the billions of links to Wikipedia on the internet, and all those links would die.
I also don’t think that will happen. If the new .org owners took down a world-beloved high-traffic site like Wikipedia, the public outcry from people of all political persuasions would make government regulation of the domain become quite likely and I’m pretty sure .org’s new owners don’t want that smoke. I also don’t even know the rules, it might be impossible for them to do so for some technical reason.
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#17It's easy to forget how amazing Wikipedia is because people are so used to it. It's also an anomaly in todays internet landscape - no ads, popups or auto-play videos. I think it's literally the best website in existence. If you suggested 20 years ago that there will soon exist a free online encyclopedia, which has two orders of magnitude more words than Britannica, is updated daily and is mostly unbiased - they would…
> no ads, popups or auto-play videos.
Also, there are no 100 JavaScript tracking scripts on Wikipedia, and it's probably one of the fastest sites among the top-100 websites in the world.
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#18Unfortunately, the .ORG domain registry is being sold to a private equity firm. Could Wikipedia just switch to .com? How technically difficult would it be?
Worth mentioning that Wikipedia.com already redirects to the .org version.
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#19Wikipedia is the most incredible creation in modern times. Because it's not about some law of the universe that people have learned enough about to use to their advantage like electricity or nuclear physics. It's something inherent to us as a species that we came together to create a resource for everyone to access and that it has such a high level of quality. The culture around Wikipedia - the culmination of knowledge, the importance of said knowledge, the random curiosity of such a wide variety of topics and so much more, says so much about us as people.
If you had asked me half a century ago if something like this would ever work - I would've said absolutely not. And yet, there it is.
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#20One step closer to the Ancient Database[0]. Which one of you is going to build the holo room? [0] https://www.gateworld.net/wiki/Ancient_database
I always thought of wikipedia as an Encyclopedia Galactica - even though it's edited more like the Hitchhikers Guide.