Wikipedia launches new code of conduct that bans "false" info and "trolling," encourages preferred pronoun use 📦

11    03 Feb 2021 02:33 by u/Line_Weights

10 comments

6 u/sHoCkErTuRbO 03 Feb 2021 02:38
Wikipedia is a tabloid version of real encyclopedias, history, and definitions. truth is not by popularity which is Wikipedias downfall.
5 u/sonorousAssailant 03 Feb 2021 02:47
It's really sad how far Wikipedia has fallen. I'm glad I never donated to them when they would beg for it.
5 u/Line_Weights [OP] 03 Feb 2021 03:16
I'm a regular donator myself but I'm done starting now that they're (more) ideologically compromised. Luckily you can download the entire website as-is and it's surprisingly light on the HDD. Someone should make a clone of the site as-is and allow for more open discussion.
1 u/NitroglycerinLtd 03 Feb 2021 09:15
How much HDD space though? Edit: when browsable and with pictures
3 u/Line_Weights [OP] 03 Feb 2021 17:35
According to this (https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/) it's only 150GB for the entire thing, pictures and all. The best time to download this would have been some time in the months before they memoryholed Ellen Page being a woman, the second best time would be now; despite its faults, a still shot of it frozen in time will remain an exceptional resource on a wide variety of subjects long into the future, and hopefully some enterprising individual will create an alternative someday.
1 u/NitroglycerinLtd 03 Feb 2021 18:10
Seems like roughly a 10 hour download, to take up 50% of all the space I've got left. I think I'll have to wait until later, and pick up an older dump from the Internet Archive.
3 u/BobSilverwind 03 Feb 2021 04:22
Well. Wikipedia is dead. Might as well show me a 404. Because if you cant be an accurate collection of personal experiences and educations, you are literally nothing, wikipedia. Ill get news faster on twitter, and more links on facebook. By bypassing the scientific method, wiki offers nothing that me Bob, cant offer you You want answers? Truth irrelevant to you? Hit me up on discord, ill be your wiki.
2 u/None 03 Feb 2021 06:38
infogalactic is better
1 u/LiquidAurum 03 Feb 2021 22:47
Is it almost as filled as wikipedia? Problem I have with most alternatives is that they don't always have anything
1 u/None 04 Feb 2021 11:13
Its definitely not empty... but the website (more precisely the home page) is not optimized for mobile devices... someone needs to create infogalactic app..