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Wikipedia’s Pyrrhic Victory (www.newyorker.com)
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One “very senior Wikimedian,” we are told, “came to think of the project as a ‘city built by Asperger’s.’ ”

If you get the paywall, it's readable at http://archive.today/R2rnW

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[–] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (7 children)

because I don’t even know what those words are supposed to mean.

How many websites about Pokemon do you think are archived?

How much of that info is duplicative (meaning it exists multiple times)?

If 2 gigs of data all says charmander evolves into charazard, why is that worth more than a single text string saying it once?

You haven’t asked any questions either

I already understand it...

You don't even know what "duplicative" means, and were too lazy to even look it up, you just wanted to argue about how your opinion matters more than facts.

marked by duplication

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duplicative

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    With no context I didn't know what you might have meant by "duplicative information". Now it makes sense, apparently you think Internet Archive is just Wayback Machine, with its archived duplicate Pokemon websites. Which is comically false, try to dial down your arrogance. Perhaps you could have asked questions about whether I really think Internet Archive's collection of Pokemon sites contains more knowledge than Wikipedia, or maybe something else:

    As of July 2013, the Internet Archive was operating 33 scanning centers in five countries, digitizing about 1,000 books a day for a total of more than 2 million books, in a total collection of 4.4 million books – including material digitized by others and fed into the Internet Archive

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    What did they do with the books after they scanned them?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Made them free to access and download, if the book is in the public domain or under a Creative Commons license. Allowed limited access if copyrighted (through some weirdly legal solution where they technically "loan" the book to you while you view it in your browser), although that option has been partly limited in the recent years due to lawsuits by book publishers.

    https://archive.org/details/texts

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  • [–] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Congrats bud.

    You kept going long enough I'll never try to clarify anything for you again, every single reply you make to one of my comments from here on out will not receive any further clarification and you'll always believe it's 100% correct.

    It won't be, but I won't see it to tell you that anymore.

    So you win, enjoy it.

    Edit:

    2-0 bud!

    Apparently I blocked your original account already, the streak continues

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