no banana@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoWikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library lemmy.worldimagemessage-square92linkfedilinkarrow-up11.15Karrow-down115
arrow-up11.13Karrow-down1imageWikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library lemmy.worldno banana@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square92linkfedilink
minus-squareTwodogsFighting@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·2 months agoAnd then there’s the scots language wiki; https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia
minus-squareplantfanatic@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up25·2 months agoThere was also some Korean lady doing a bunch of Russian history for a decade. Edit Linky
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoafaik Wikipedia shut down the Greenlandic language version to prevent this exact situation, apparently the language used there was getting very poor
minus-squareBurninator05@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThe quotes used in the article sound like something Groundkeeper Willie would say. Im not sure why anyone would take them seriously.
And then there’s the scots language wiki;
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia
There was also some Korean lady doing a bunch of Russian history for a decade.
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afaik Wikipedia shut down the Greenlandic language version to prevent this exact situation, apparently the language used there was getting very poor
The quotes used in the article sound like something Groundkeeper Willie would say. Im not sure why anyone would take them seriously.