• twistedtxb@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Many people pointed this out in the link but yeah, it’s much harder to make edits / entries in wikipedia nowadays.

    The rules are more strict and you have to respect an increasing number of rules, etc.

    I remember when Wikipedia started to get some steam, it was basically a text editor with very basic hyperlink-style formatting.

    Minor changes / typos are still easy to do, but frankly I wouldn’t know how to start anymore if I wanted to create a new entry.

    • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately as more and more people got online it became more and more ripe for abuse. I can’t imagine Wikipedia not getting horrible defaced if its editorial standards were still in 2006. Old Wikipedia had some weird shit. Not every mid-level WW2 Nazi commander needed a page of thinly-veiled apologia, and thankfully many of those excesses are already dealt with. Also, the articles in general are of a higher quality than they used to be.

      I hope they can work out a solution that allows trusted junior editors to become admins more easily.

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        1 year ago

        It is funny looking back to the earliest articles and how little rules and regulations there were for making them. Including just how loose the reliable source rules were, since there was little oversight on using, say, someone’s blog as a source of information.