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Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

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598 points leotravis10 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jl6 ◴[05 Sep 25 07:04 UTC] No.45135750[source]▶
Wikipedia is fabulous. I wish educators would stop telling people that it’s not reliable, and start using it to teach media literacy - which, for wiki purposes, is essentially to read the talk page to see what viewpoints have been included and excluded and why.
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scandox ◴[05 Sep 25 07:19 UTC] No.45135842[source]▶
My daughter's teacher told her class that Wikipedia is unreliable because it's just made up by volunteers. So I asked her where they should find information and she said other sites on the internet that can't just be edited by anyone.

Blew my mind.

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1. jajko ◴[05 Sep 25 07:59 UTC] No.45136115[source]▶
Simple phrases heard elsewhere which make the person feel for 5s like a really smart experienced one in given topic, while being the opposite. A very common trait in large part of population, any population, which usually comes in pair with lack of critical thinking inward & outward.

At the end though, most of us are guilty of such behavior from time to time.