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Tom_Fox · 3 years ago

That's why I don't trust Wikipedia entirely. You gather a few billion (maybe million, who knows) people who claim to know things and entering data. Some of the data is accurate while some is not. It's more or less a holding cell for data on what the popular vote holds. In their own terms, you can't change things constantly, so you can have the correct facts and enter them, only to have many more people change it back to something else. I trust it as much as I do Microsoft.
Eddie Awad · 3 years ago

I think the assumption is that there are many more "good" Wiki contributors than "bad". So, bad information gets corrected quickly. Of course, this works best when you have thousands of people editing the Wiki at any given time, so that bad information gets corrected/filtered quickly (maybe with other bad information!).