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Wikipedia is and continues to be the best thing that happened to the internet. A shining example of an open platform that works.
Except for their unnecessarily incessant fund raising. There’s zero reason it should happen that often, and that intrusively.
should have a fate similar to stackoverflow: less contributors, worse (or stale) content, less visits
Wikipedia is and continues to be the best thing that happened to the internet. A shining example of an open platform that works.
Except for their unnecessarily incessant fund raising. There’s zero reason it should happen that often, and that intrusively.
Fixed.
That's probably linked to the increasing polarisation in the US, but I get the impression that the sites neutrality policies have gradually been chipped away by introducing concepts like "false balance" as an excuse to pick a side on an issue. I could easily see that causing the site to slowly decline like StackOverflow did, most people don't want to deal with agenda pushing.
Fortunately articles related to topics like science and history haven't been significantly damaged by this yet. Something to watch carefully.
Slightly off topic, but now that long context machine translation is roughly on-par with humans: are there any official efforts from Wikipedia, to translate the "best" or "most complete" language version of each article to all other languages? I'd imagine that the effort of getting all languages up to the same standards are just an impossible one and people from "lower-resource" languages would benefit a lot.
Wikipedia is and continues to be the best thing that happened to the internet. A shining example of an open platform that works.
Except for their unnecessarily incessant fund raising. There’s zero reason it should happen that often, and that intrusively.
Slightly off topic, but now that long context machine translation is roughly on-par with humans: are there any official efforts from Wikipedia, to translate the "best" or "most complete" language version of each article to all other languages? I'd imagine that the effort of getting all languages up to the same standards are just an impossible one and people from "lower-resource" languages would benefit a lot.
At least using Irish as an example, the state of machine translation is still far far behind proper translation unfortunately and wouldn't be up to scratch
This is cute, but kind of an example of Wikipedia's off-mission bloat. It irks me that they constantly fundraise when most of it is not needed for Wikipedia proper, but rather used for initiatives people know less about and may not fund if they knew.
I wonder whether the emergence of a single, true Wikipedia competitor would actually put an end to this never-ending fundraising criticism (since people could simply donate to the competitor as a form of protest)
But it is noticeably biased on any topic that has political implications.