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Posted by edward 12 hours ago

Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia(www.economist.com)
467 points | 411 commentspage 7
jaigupta 11 hours ago|
AI would need projects like this to harvest human knowledge so...
bigfishrunning 11 hours ago|
Not enough humans even care about the snake eating its own tail. We are rapidly approaching post-truth.
GaryBluto 11 hours ago||
I hope they don't. Wikipedia and the Wikimedia foundation is quite dodgy behind the scenes.
UpsideDownRide 11 hours ago||
It shouldn't take away from the benefit the project provides.
account42 10 hours ago||
The work of countless unpaid contributors should not be used to distract from the shady organization profiting off their work.
zhouzhao 10 hours ago||
Wikimedia is the shady organization with the pop-up banners begging for money, yes.

Wikipedia itself is what it is, a library of collective effort.

As much as I despise wikimedia, the worth of wikipedia for humanity is so much more compared to the negative aspects of wikimedia.

MisterMunchkin 10 hours ago||
Yeah it's so ridiculous seeing them ask for "donations" (which they just pocket) when the running costs for the next century are already in the bank.

They pretend it is a charity, but it isn't. It all just goes to shareholders.

xyzzy_plugh 10 hours ago||
"It all just goes to shareholders"

What is this nonsense? It's a non-profit. There are literally no shareholders.

fnctrev 7 hours ago||
yes dude the 80 year slice of time you live is the most important time in human history. nothing as monumental happened before you were born, nor will it happen after you die.
Purplish5583 8 hours ago||
Rage bait article?
0gs 9 hours ago||
maybe the headline is not a statement but a demand
sunir 10 hours ago||
Challenge accepted.
shevy-java 8 hours ago||
"Access is temporarily restricted"

Well ...

riffic 8 hours ago||
I'd argue projects like the Linux kernel or Kubernetes are just as impressive from an infrastructure perspective.
amelius 11 hours ago||
AI, however ...
signoff_studio 6 hours ago|
I mean, even Wikipedia is run by an organization. Nothing really stays outside the system forever.
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