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  • I stopped giving a shit about and even using Wikipedia back in 2019 when they locked everybody in Southern California using a certain major service out of making edits to any article. I was trying to edit an article on carbon because they had an isotope incorrectly labeled and I was told multiple times by Wikipedia volunteers and their staff that there is some dog joke bot that made it really impossible for them to control … so they locked millions of people out of making any kind of edits because dog jokes. So the infactual science stayed in the carbon article and that’s when I realized Wikipedia is just controlled by a handful of assholes. I stopped donating then. When I asked them who gets to make edits they said they’re not really sure who the volunteers are but they trust them and when I asked Wikipedia staff how they account for the trustworthiness of who their editors are and what their intentions are, staff had no answer. But I can’t make an edit to a carbon article but anon can … even if they have some sort of agreement behind the scenes about controlling the information on Wikipedia. That’s no problem. Just, you know, infactual information about a carbon isotope that’s the problem. Fuck Wikipedia. Encyclopedia Britannica still rules and is worth the money.