not everything has to be exciting, expanding, growing, "numbers go up" damnit.
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Boring is subjective.
For me, Wikipedia is a joyful wealth of knowledge & collective factual editing in one of the most responsible executions expected of such a format.
If we're being subjective; knowledge is hella fun, yo.
just reminding everyone, one donation to wikipedia will hurt leon's ego. if you want to help a free source of info with no ads, consider donating
spoiler
Um, just in case, maybe spoiler that? It's not like that first case was difficult to figure out, but still.
Edit: Fucking oops.
::: response to spoilers for danganronpa figure what out? all i see here is the hothead baseball player being a hothead :::
I agree here. I'm looking forward to playing these games myself, but I didn't even consider it being a possible spoiler before the other person mentioned it.
Ah, shit.
Nah, no worries. As you said yourself, the first case is probably easy to find... And besides, the series is so old at this point, it's entirely on me for not having played it yet. I've owned them since the PS Vita days. I just straight up haven't prioritised it yet.
No context = no spoiler
Wow, that took me over an hour to read, totally worth it!
Boring is ok for 95% of the things.
Time for some encarta games
Great article, would highly recommend anyone with the time give it a full read through.
Wikipedia is incredibly valuable, and insanely well edited and put together, and we're all lucky to have something like it available for free.
CONTINUE READING WITH A VERGE SUBSCRIPTION AND SUCK MY FAT COCK
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Says the rag that survives on drama
what did they ever do since the PC build guide?
Individually, not much. Journalism as a profession, however, has been not so slowly transitioning to sensationalism in lieu of a "just the facts, folks" methodology. Thats what I call living on drama.
Good science is boring, good politics is boring, good espionage is boring, good journalism is boring, good history is boring, good banking is boring, good business is boring. Entertainment serves us this pop view of the world...
But wikipedia is more valuable than all the LLM slop machines combined.
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How do you download the entire Wikipedia? Someone said it was possible to host it and also resources for Anna's archive and other archive sites.
downloading it is fine but i think the contents of wikipedia are so thoroughly archived that i doubt it is in danger of becoming "lost media".
my fear isn't that the information would be destroyed, but that the ongoing project of keeping the knowledge up to date would stop, or be split across some underground efforts with varying quality standards.
Apps such as https://kiwix.org/ uses the data dumps regularly made available by the Wikimedia Foundation at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/.
The entire Wikipedia might be large, especially with images, but e.g English Wikipedia without images is a couple of 10s of GB.
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“One of the things I really love about Wikipedia is it forces you to have measured, emotionless conversations with people you disagree with in the name of trying to construct the accurate narrative,”
Yeah, I think what makes Wikipedia resilient is that you can’t just go there and say something subjective. You need to find the correct way to state the actual fact, even when it can have different interpretations. Cause that way, no group can contest it.
Or they'll just declare it non-notable and speedily delete it. They've lost so many newcomers to internal bullshit like that.
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Move the operations to Denmark. Florida is a fascist sinking state.
WMF has been headquartered in San Francisco since 2007, with chapters and data centers around the world. Not that California's in the US, but much better than Florida.
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