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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Wed Jul 12, 2023 11:44 pm

Have you checked out Wikiversity?
What interested you?

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Thu Jul 13, 2023 1:02 am

Never heard of it, but Wikipedia is so unreliable and full of disinformation that it's a terrible idea for it to be used for education, a system already broken as-is.

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Post by CaptHayfever » Thu Jul 13, 2023 3:28 am

I didn't know about it.
I'd imagine, though, that the moderators would be quick to remove vandalism as they usually are on Wikipedia as well.

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Re: Wikiversity

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Thu Jul 13, 2023 10:03 am

What Wikipedia deems vandalism often actually isn't. The main problem is they aren't concerned with objective truth; original research isn't allow, only "reliable, published sources", even if the sources are verifiably, demonstrably false. What they deem a "reliable source" is also biased.

That leads into another issue, they often violate one of their "five pillars", that "Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view", when it in fact is not.

To Wikipedia's credit though, they do have an accessible talk page and past versions of articles are saved, so there's at least some degree of transparency, but the average viewer isn't going to really be digging into that.

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Re: Wikiversity

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Post by CaptHayfever » Thu Jul 13, 2023 5:21 pm

Hmm, this is starting to sound like politics, but as I recall, we're not supposed to talk about politics here anymore.

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Thu Jul 13, 2023 11:37 pm

Doesn't sound like politics to me, sounds like Wikipedia.

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Re: Wikiversity

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Post by Booyakasha » Fri Jul 14, 2023 4:26 am

...I like Wikipedia. You take it with a grain of salt.

Used to write term papers off it. You know, you can't credit it academically, but the articles often cite things you can credit academically.

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Re: Wikiversity

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Fri Jul 14, 2023 8:18 am

^ Oh yeah, I'm not saying it's useless or anything. I basically agree.

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