Free online knowledge base displaced giants like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta in the public psyche.

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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I am very grateful for Wikipedia, and I have donated to them several times. If you can, I suggest you do too. Wikipedia is a solid public good.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Overall it's true but there's a lot of people pushing agendas on there too.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Not only is that true, but Wikipedia’s resistance to bias (generally speaking) is definitely one of its strengths. even if it gets slammed with a bunch of revisionism for short periods, it will eventually self-correct.

    And, while I’m sure that many people could cite several exceptions to this, Wikipedia does, in a general sense, maintain these rather high standards regardless. Considering what Wikipedia is in the fact that it is free and always will be, the enduring value of it is obvious.

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