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Originally Posted by Leo.G
It used to be anyone with an account could edit anything and I had arguments with several members on a forum years ago when Wiki was very young who were showing equations for electronics and had them all wrong, equations they got from Wiki.
I spent years studying electronics and still have several thousand dollars worth of text books here (new value not now value, what's a book?) and these people would go off stating I was taught incorrectly by those who wrote the books incorrectly without any kno0wledge and Wiki was the knowledge God.
Thankfully it seems a lot more reliable now and I even donate whenever I get an email.
I don't use it a lot but the idea is a good one.
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Thank you Leo for taking your time to provide your expert input...
I am rather happy that WIKI is not as bad as some insist and also very happy that I was more or less on the money... I donate when asked because and get excellent value for the way I use it.. which is not knowing a damn thing but going in I always find a decent introduction to the things I am trying to find out about..I absolutely love " the words in bkue" and have wandered for hours starting on a subject and clicking a blue word that takes me off to say someone related to the subject but when I read about him I find he is interested in working mules and from working mules may end up in the history of hide tanning...and I just love what I guess we could in this context call trivia...
What I am entirely confident about is that folk, who critise it outside folk such as yourself who correctly demand a high level of accuracy in matters where there is no room to wiggle, have articles on WIKI pointing out their past crimes, odd ball behaviour, links to rat bag groups, extreme political affiliations that they prefer to be kept the background, or in General " exposed" together with their " sheep" who I suspect are just too dumb to ever reference any encyclopedia but happy to repeat a nonsense sound bite that WIKI is no good...and you can bet these sheep never ever try to judge WIKI using their own personal inspection.
AND so WIKI seems like enemy number one to the conspiracy types, anti vax liars, climate change sceptics, and climate change " deniers" and far right wing types who think the government will take their guns and put the populaion in concentration camps...utter nutters to be specific...
Alex