One “very senior Wikimedian,” we are told, “came to think of the project as a ‘city built by Asperger’s.’ ”

If you get the paywall, it’s readable at http://archive.today/R2rnW

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Sounds like the only real problem is all those jackass “deletionists”…

    If an article is so niche no one ever looks at it, then it eats up zero bandwidth. Just the data storage for a small text file.

    Nothing should ever be deleted, there’s no fucking benefit to that

    If they weren’t acting up, then activity dying down wouldn’t matter

    It’s the biggest repository of human knowledge ever, it existing and being freely accessible to the planet is massive.

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      But if they stop keep deleting “niche” content from Wikipedia, then people won’t have to use Fandom instead.

      You know, the commercial, ad infested wiki that was also founded by a Wikipedia co-founder.