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Re: Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology

#31

Maybe if Wikipedia sourced more peer reviewed publications and less Vox, I would be more satisfied. Thrilled to see Grokipedia as a competitor that could perhaps pressure Wikipedia to improve its editorial policies.

If this isn't ragebait I don't know what is.

Re: Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology

#33

I love Wikipedia, but Wikimedia does not need your donations at all, as much as its misleading ads try to convince you it's on the brink of death. As far as this particular article goes, it just comes off as kind of cringeworthy to me. This is a style of internet humor that went out of fashion about 10 years ago.

> This is a style of internet humor that went out of fashion about 10 years ago. You know what else has happened in the last 10 years? People got stupid. Between 2017 and 2023, the percentage of U.S. adults at the lowest levels of illiteracy increased from 19% to 28%. Some studies show that the US's peak literacy was around 2015 and has been decreasing ever since.

How? How do 28% of people not know how to read?

Re: Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology

#34

Especially relevant today with the release of grokipedia

It’s so good. I spent 2 hours reading articles on there last night and the consistency was excellent, although a little verbose at times.

Of course, it cribbed the best!

Re: Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology

#36

Maybe if Wikipedia sourced more peer reviewed publications and less Vox, I would be more satisfied. Thrilled to see Grokipedia as a competitor that could perhaps pressure Wikipedia to improve its editorial policies.

I can’t, in good conscience, think that Musk would objectively be a good steward of an encyclopedia.

Re: Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology

#37

Maybe if Wikipedia sourced more peer reviewed publications and less Vox, I would be more satisfied. Thrilled to see Grokipedia as a competitor that could perhaps pressure Wikipedia to improve its editorial policies.

If this isn't ragebait I don't know what is.

Poe's Law in effect.

Re: Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology

#38

I love Wikipedia, but Wikimedia does not need your donations at all, as much as its misleading ads try to convince you it's on the brink of death. As far as this particular article goes, it just comes off as kind of cringeworthy to me. This is a style of internet humor that went out of fashion about 10 years ago.

> This is a style of internet humor that went out of fashion about 10 years ago. You know what else has happened in the last 10 years? People got stupid. Between 2017 and 2023, the percentage of U.S. adults at the lowest levels of illiteracy increased from 19% to 28%. Some studies show that the US's peak literacy was around 2015 and has been decreasing ever since.

This article is not some intellectual thinkpiece that only the literati can comprehend. Trends change, humor evolves. If "shoop da whoop", rage comics, leetspeak, and motivational posters aren't funny anymore, it's not because people "got stupid".

Re: Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology

#40

Especially relevant today with the release of grokipedia

It’s so good. I spent 2 hours reading articles on there last night and the consistency was excellent, although a little verbose at times.

It took me less than a minute on the site to run into factually wrong information, broken citations, etc. Cannot imagine rotting my brain with knowingly bad information for over 2 hours
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