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1459 points Group_B | 4 comments | 04 Feb 25 18:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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duxup ◴[04 Feb 25 18:43 UTC] No.42936755[source]▶
I like the idea, but one thing about Wikipedia is that with technical or granular topics it approaches things in a focused way. A specific molecular biology term's page isn't there to explain exactly how it fits into a larger biology topic. It makes random pages difficult to glean information from.

Even wikipedia articles I understand, more on computer topics, fall into the category of "the only people who understand this page are people who ... already understand it / don't need to read this".

Granted sometimes the social media context is kinda opaque, but usually "man fall down it funny" is pretty universal.

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1. TZubiri ◴[04 Feb 25 20:01 UTC] No.42937786[source]▶
>"the only people who understand this page are people who ... already understand it / don't need to read this".

That is provably false

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2. duxup ◴[04 Feb 25 22:25 UTC] No.42939859[source]▶
I like to think of it as amusingly “dramatic” rather than false. ;)

Way back when I was in college and the internet was new-ish. There were a few places you could ask math questions. A classmate of mine found that if he just asked a question online he would never get any responses. So what he would do is add some false generalizations in his question.

In doing that he would be inundated with people answering his question, even if just to prove him wrong.

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3. TZubiri ◴[04 Feb 25 22:38 UTC] No.42940075[source]▶
I don't think it's relevant in this case. But it's a well known internet law

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

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4. duxup ◴[04 Feb 25 22:56 UTC] No.42940343{3}[source]▶
That's a fun law. I've bumped into it a few times asking an AI related question and part of my understanding was a bit off. Even being slightly off rather than completely seems to bring out more enthusiastic responses.