Wikipedia
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Why people recommend it
“My Apple Watch Wikipedia app shows the local results and I use it to discreetly doomscroll”
“The Wikipedia "map" tab on the iOS app is also a great source”
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“I know plenty of people who binge wikipedia and learn new things through that.”
“when I typed the three words into Wikipedia’s search, the TV show was the second search result.”
“If I want to look something up, I always check out wikipedia first.”
Caveats and dissent
“I'm way too disgusted at the Wikipedia sausage making process for that.”
“the Wikipedia app devs prevent you from opting out of sharing supposedly-anonymous data with their app”
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Threads where it came up
- 25 Years of Wikipedia 4 mentions
- Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you 1 mention
- Big Tech's Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia 1 mention
- Roadside Attraction 1 mention
- Android now stops you sharing your location in photos 1 mention
- Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters 1 mention
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“My Apple Watch Wikipedia app shows the local results and I use it to discreetly doomscroll”
“I'm way too disgusted at the Wikipedia sausage making process for that.”
“The Wikipedia "map" tab on the iOS app is also a great source”
“the Wikipedia app devs prevent you from opting out of sharing supposedly-anonymous data with their app”
> "grokipedia" as idea So you can understand someone not liking something, but you cannot understand that person liking the idea of an alternative? What is the idea for you if not just an alternative to the established service with the undesired part changed?
> not to mention the its bias is reason that Grokipedia came about in the first place. No, the reason is Musk didn't like that the Wikipedia article on him added the factual record of him doing a Nazi salute [0] [0] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/united-states/article/2025/01/23/musk-wikipedia-founder-in-row-over-how-to-describe-nazi-salute_6737328_133.html
“I know plenty of people who binge wikipedia and learn new things through that.”
This is hardly surprising given - New partnerships with tech companies support Wikipedia’s sustainability. Which relies on Human content. https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/01/15/wikipedia-celebrates-25years/
“when I typed the three words into Wikipedia’s search, the TV show was the second search result.”
I prefer the real encyclopedias. Britannica or other. The quality was so much better. For me would be hard to believe, anybody with actual experience using britannica can prefer wiki from the explanation quality pov. Of course the wiki has many advantages too. Before LLM I used it for helping with translation, for example. The direct links to web resources, etc. I like having both. I do certainly not want a world whe
“I have been a fan of Wikipedia since I first learned about it”
“If I want to look something up, I always check out wikipedia first.”
“The free encyclopedia is an advertisement for a nonprofit”
“The same applies to both wikipedia and grokpedia”