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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 8
s3p 9 hours ago|
The paywall here is hilariously ironic. Indeed, the humans at economist will never release something free like Wikipedia!
snvzz 10 hours ago||
Humans already created the superior Grokipedia[0].

For every Wikipedia article, Grokipedia has a better one.

0. https://grokipedia.com/

davidpapermill 7 hours ago|
Just took a quick look at my home town. It seems to think two of the schools in the town are responsible for the education of the town's children - not sure what all the other schools think of that! It also failed to cover the very significant story of the restoration of the town's canal, instead making it sound like it had never closed and was then magically reintegrated into a wider network in one year.

I'd be interested to see a rigorous comparison of error rates. Perhaps need to use a better model.

tonyhart7 10 hours ago||
we literally have youtube, the most complete knowledge corpus in human history
georgeecollins 10 hours ago|
you mean Reddit.
cestith 9 hours ago||
You mean the Internet Archive.
brador 11 hours ago||
Wikipedia was made from the free labor of IT admin staff and disabled people, both had free time in a typical day to build and curate it.

If I were to make wikipedia today it would contain only bullet pointed facts with sources for each. Articles would have unlimited length. Pagination if an article gets over a million lines.

No exceptions.

An absolute source and collation of human truth.

TFNA 10 hours ago|
> disabled people

Writ broadly. Last time I looked into who was editing Wikipedia on my own academic discipline, it was several people who had an obsessive autistic fixation on the subject, but whose autism was apparently so socially debilitating they couldn't gain employment, not even in academia with its somewhat greater accommodation for oddballs. The upside is that they could channel their interest productively into WP. The downside of this is as outsiders to a field where much consensus is found only at real-life conferences and lecture handouts, their info was often years behind the state of the art (and, of course, WP demands that citations be to secondary sources, even if obsolete).

cestith 9 hours ago||
On the bright side, as encyclopedias go that's much more up to date than my parents' World Book from the 1960s or even my CD of Encarta 1996.
fnoef 9 hours ago||
I wish people would never again create websites like the economist, or all kind of yellow press bs
mtgh2s 11 hours ago||
I suppose humans will never again create a project quite like the old printed encyclopedias, either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bender 9 hours ago|
I keep them around. Harder for state and corporate propagandists to fight over twisting the truth.
itomato 9 hours ago||
They don't need to. Wikipedia proved decentralization and community moderation works.

Next problem. The article hints at it, but the paywall is my immediate concern.

metalman 11 hours ago||
the titles statement is bombastic even by current standards where the trifecta of nialism, narcisism and nostalgia are the characteristics found in so many of our 'leading voices'
verelo 9 hours ago|
Never is a long time. The economist, come on.
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