UK gov has a guy Phillip Cross that edits pages every day 365, 24/7
Even on Christmas day he edits articles of British left wingers and inserts rumour and lies into their pages
Perhaps hes a right winger that really, really hates everyone left of Thatcher
More likely “he” is likely a department of a British troll farm
Robert Conquest, a ‘historian’ that worked in an AntiCommunist British propaganda department, is still taken seriously on articles like the faked ‘holodomor’ and articles on the Soviet Union
Anne Applebaum, who opens her discredited book on the Ukrainian famine with a bad-faith mistranslation of Ukrainian words, is the author of the holodomor article on Britannica.com
Everybody talking down here is only talking about politics but for real im glad an online encyclopedia exists at all, otherwise people would have to rely on those horrible school notes websites for anything ew
yeah turns out i dont give a shit about what libertarians think of physics and chemistry.
Yeah, it’s straight up invaluable to my work as a mathematician. Sure, you can find all the info elsewhere and the Wikipedia articles are sometimes bad or just very poorly laid out, but if I need to quickly look up what the metric is in the Poincare model of hyperbolic geometry or something, Wikipedia is where I go.
It’s a battleground. Internet leftists who see a battleground and conclude that we need to abandon it because it’s not already won have their heads screwed on backwards.
because it’s not already won
It has a bad habit of using non-peer-reviewed sources where they should not be appropriate and giving those sources the last word. A lot of articles end with “This dude says in [non-peer-reviewed book] that [false thing]”.
in theory yes, in practice no.
power users and bad sources being upheld are a major issue, as stated in other comments, and those issues are baked into how wikipedia is built
