I absolutely love Wikipedia. It has almost replaced a good chunk of my school books back when I was in high school and it is still very useful now that I’m in university. Wikipedia and similar things are a dream that comes true

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    1 month ago

    I think wikipedia is one of the best sources around. People were trained to “dismiss” wikipedia or to cite its sources, but actually, as a document and a governance structure, its basically the last reliable source of “probably pretty close to the truth” around.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    1 month ago

    I love it because back 20+ years ago it was frowned upon in school because it wasn’t trustworthy, and teachers would fail you for citing it in assignments. Now I feel like it’s the most trusted source on the Internet.

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 month ago

      I still don’t think you should cite Wikipedia. Read the citations Wikipedia provides and cite those!

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
      9·
      1 month ago

      I would use wikipedia as a really nice source of sources. I actually convinced a middle school teacher of this, and she changed her spiel on Wikipedia accordingly.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    16·
    1 month ago

    Imho Wikipedia is just one of the greatest achievements of humanity championing knowledge and accessibility without greedy enshitification.

  • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    For you and anyone else interested, Kiwix can be used to keep an offline copy of Wikipedia (the one I have from a few months ago is 112GB I think for pictures being included) and that way you can rest easy knowing the regime in the USA hasn’t taken down or taken over Wikipedia!

    • super_user_do@feddit.itOPEnglish
      2·
      30 days ago

      That might be really useful. Thank you for sharing such an useful resource! It might also be useful to all the people who live in countries where the internet is expensive or hardly accessible

      • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        30 days ago

        I’m glad I was able to help some! I just want to say that Kiwix can be self-hosted too! I have it running on my TrueNAS Scale setup, and it works very well! :)