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923 points coloneltcb | 4 comments | 25 Apr 25 23:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.588s | source
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sedev ◴[26 Apr 25 03:04 UTC] No.43800538[source]▶
I am going to say a thing I say a lot: please edit Wikipedia. It is easier to do than you probably think! Wikipedia's biggest constraint is no longer money or server space, it's editor time (especially since LLM-based garbage is a force multiplier on disruptive editing that does not have a corresponding improvement to good-faith editing). Any topic area you know about and/or care about can benefit from your attention. Fixing typos is valuable. Adding photos is valuable. Flagging vandalism is valuable. Please edit Wikipedia.
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1. qingcharles ◴[26 Apr 25 06:54 UTC] No.43801481[source]▶
I've been an editor since 2004. It's getting really, really hard now. Like, it is really off-putting and no longer enjoyable.
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2. Paracompact ◴[26 Apr 25 08:34 UTC] No.43801882[source]▶
Curious, as a longtime editor, what's gotten harder for you recently?

As a casual, very infrequent editor, I echo everyone else's complaints that it's intimidating to have your additions reverted by the old guard who seem to have an increasingly particular vision of the site.

3. joenot443 ◴[26 Apr 25 15:08 UTC] No.43804286[source]▶
21 years of editing, that's awesome! I'm curious though, what's changed? If I were to maybe guess, I'd imagine it coincides with the rising temperature of the online culture war?
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4. qingcharles ◴[27 Apr 25 04:35 UTC] No.43809458[source]▶
You tend to have to get all your ducks 100% in a row before you edit or create. It used to be I could author a new article with some decent solid sources and there would be no argument. Then someone later would come and fix any deficiencies and maybe switch out the sources for better ones.

Basically, it's become "perfect is the enemy of good."