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  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    184·
    17 hours ago

    Wikipedia was not then what it is now. You’re spot on with all that, spot on, but in the early days it wasn’t nearly as trustworthy.

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      17 hours ago

      Fair enough, I’m not old enough to remember those days of Wikipedia, my memory starts in roughly 2010 wrt Wikipedia use 😅

      • ɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        51·
        15 hours ago

        You can check old versions of any article by clicking ‘history’. And yeah, the standards used to be pretty low.