I absolutely love Wikipedia. It has almost replaced a good chunk of my school books back when I was in high school and it is still very useful now that I’m in university. Wikipedia and similar things are a dream that comes true
I think wikipedia is one of the best sources around. People were trained to “dismiss” wikipedia or to cite its sources, but actually, as a document and a governance structure, its basically the last reliable source of “probably pretty close to the truth” around.
Close, but the best source of information is actually some random podcast that I found when googling people who agree with me
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Imho Wikipedia is just one of the greatest achievements of humanity championing knowledge and accessibility without greedy enshitification.
I love it because back 20+ years ago it was frowned upon in school because it wasn’t trustworthy, and teachers would fail you for citing it in assignments. Now I feel like it’s the most trusted source on the Internet.
I still don’t think you should cite Wikipedia. Read the citations Wikipedia provides and cite those!
I would use wikipedia as a really nice source of sources. I actually convinced a middle school teacher of this, and she changed her spiel on Wikipedia accordingly.
RIP Encarta.
Dude I fucking LOVE Wikipedia. It’s such a great time killer when it’s a slow day at work.
