What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan. https://t.co/tHkx1Wa06r
— Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) May 13, 2023
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"Wikipedia doesn't bend to government demands. It just uses a catalog of government-approved publications as its source of truth"
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Well yea a lot of studies and research are funded by governments. It's either that or take Epstein's money.
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Studies and research are one thing.
But all it takes is for some misinformed journo (redundant adjective, I know) to claim something for it to reach the burden of proof for Wikipedia.
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True, but what's the alternative. Sourcing from random tards on twitter?
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The main issue is the lack of skepticism exercised by the neurodivergent nerds when a source supports their world view.
So the article becomes "X happened[1]" and not, as it should be: "some random fricking journo claimed X, but offered no proof to support their deranged ranting"
And the only way to get something overturned is to supply a source that contradicts it, which is r-slurred because there was never any foundation to the claim to begin with.
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i knew this had a term https://xkcd.com/978/
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I think xkcd might genuinely be the most annoying cute twink on the planet. Like someone took a rightoid caricature of 'coastal elite' shitlib and give him a pencil and a scratchbook.
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That's why it's fun to throw his comics in the face of shitlibs
This one's good for people going on about "genocides" and "extinctions" and so on:
https://xkcd.com/1860/
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The problem is not just that, but it doesn't permit primary sources (usually), many right wing publications inc Fox News - for not being a "Reliable Source", actually that activists will push source bans via wikilawyering.
wikipedia permits breaking rules if it "makes wikipedia a better place", and do not permit (WP:POINTY) you to try to enforce the same rules equally on other pages. The rules are often arbitrary and political articles are hijacked by activists - typically an active, small minority (think power Jannies).
Example - recent rdrama post about "TheTranarchist" a main contributor to gender pages wrote about how she fights the Wikipedia bigots. She was tempbanned with pushback for those posts - the Vast Majority keeps quiet.
Next we have people like GorillaWarfare who see a hitpiece on people without WP pages - e.g. the CEO of cloudflare - and create a wikipage sourcing just the hitpiece.
WP:GOODBIAS - bias is a good thing, actually
WP:TRUTH - verifiability, not truth
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Source?
A source. I need a source.
Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.
No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.
You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.
Do you have a degree in that field?
A college degree? In that field?
Then your arguments are invalid.
No, it doesn't matter how close those data points are correlated. Correlation does not equal causation.
Correlation does not equal causation.
CORRELATION. DOES. NOT. EQUAL. CAUSATION.
You still haven't provided me a valid source yet.
Nope, still haven't.
I just looked through all 308 pages of your user history, figures I'm debating a glormpf supporter. A moron.
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Source this:
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:You betta watch yo darn mouth 'fore I come over there and shut it fo' ya. Sourcing from random tards on twitter is a darn fools game and you betta know that.
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So true bbbb
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:So true you what?You aint neva gonna be nothin but a triflin hoe, so stop tryna act like you better than me. You aint neva gonna amount to nothin.
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No is is going to respect the guy who takes up the entire region above the fold to e-beg for his website
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:Boy, you best watch yo mouth before I come up in yo face and give you a whoopin'! Ain't no one gon' respect no punk butt neighbor who be beggin' fo his website. You best learn yo place, son.
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The website makes money actually and is fully endowed. The Wikimedia foundation wants your money for all kinds of other things
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Wikipedia is laughable. I hope they atleast made lot of money when they made it shit.
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Wikimedia eats all their money
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Well over $100 million.
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ITT:
Jimbo is right. If there's a way to legally challenge Turkish government orders then Musk should do it. Especially if he considers himself a free speech absolutist.
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I've never seen that picture before but i'm sure that guy hates Musk's guts nowadays and tried to scrub off his tattoo with a cheese grater.
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A deserved date for the soulless thrall who would brand himself with a corporate symbol
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jimmy is a fraud, #musk4lyfe but musk is a kitty too
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There is a fanfic involving both of thrm as MtF lesbos
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Painting caring about free speech in US more than Turkey as hypocrisy is so dumb.
Think about it: "Free speech in Turkey" "Free speech in Turkey" "Free speech in Turkey".
It's so clearly not a thing any American should fight for or care about
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I stand with Jimmy! He did it for free and that's a good thing because Wikipedia is very useful, despite the autists making 73,000 edits a year.
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Our world knowledge is based on the backs of like 100K wikijannies
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If you're going to put a period after every word for dramatic emphasis you need to ditch the contraction. It makes you sound like a strag.
It. Did. Not. Happen
It. Didn't. Happen.
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You are a real Carp. You have no fins, you have no gils, you have no eggs, but that doesn't matter. You are a valid drama user who is trying to feel comfortable in his body.
All the “validation” you get is pure. Behind your back people love you. Your parents are happy and proud of you, your friends laugh at your jokes behind closed doors, and boys love you, and girls envy you.
Men absolutely love you. Fish folk who “pass” look ordinary and natural to a dramanauts. Your bone structure does not matter.
You will be happy. You will smile every single morning and tell yourself it's going to be ok, and deep inside you feel the euphoria creeping up like a weed. It is what defines you, not the Carpphobes.
Eventually, it'll be perfect for you - you'll come out, start gill therapy, get fin surgery, and finally be your ideal self. Your parents will find you, happy and relieved that they finally have a happy fish. They'll congratulate you on your hard journey, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a Carp is what you are.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35935714:
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wikipedia is fricking worthless now. Everyone knows it but there's still a ton of people too far gone with the brainrot to admit it.
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Complaining about Wikipedia is pleb tier when 99% of the site's content is dependant on like 3 autists with no life.
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