Ask HN: Is Wikipedia going to be obsolete soon?

2 pointsposted 2 days ago
by piratesAndSons

Item id: 50175857

13 Comments

ckx

2 days ago

Wikipedia has always had an app, Wikipedia is not going away, sure, it will recieve less traffic, but it has and always will be a staple of the Internet. If Wikipedia ever went down, millions of pages of human knowledge would disappear. It's not going away anytime soon.

bwb

2 days ago

Love Wikipedia, not going anywhere. The app with seeing places around you is amazing when traveling.

Muhammad523

13 hours ago

I don't think so. I keep offline copies of Wikipedia using kiwix, maybe y'all should too.

sdevonoes

14 hours ago

How would people update wikipedia if there’s no website? Via an app? Don’t think so

NishanStepak

2 days ago

Wikipedia is going to change with this. I expect more apps and video instruction to happen. There is no reason Wikipedia cannot expand Wikimedia and make it more effective. They have a huge amount of creative commons content already on Wikimedia. Wikimedia is already better than Wikipedia in many ways.

herrkobold

2 days ago

wikipedia is indispensable. therefore it will be dispensed

moomoo11

2 days ago

most wiki articles on current events are so politically slanted these days.

i hope so.

flippant

2 days ago

I used to think that English Wikipedia is biased, but now I've realized that it's a consensus machine. Wikipedia is just downstream of biased reporting. The editors are good about following whatever facts are most reliably citable.

Using North Korea as an example because I assume it's not a polarizing topic for people on HN. NK is especially interesting because we only have access to reporting from external news sources. Sure there's anti-regime bias, but that's just reflective of Western consensus. It's fascinating to see exactly when the editors decide it's appropriate to call Kim Jong-Un a "dictator". And also fascinating to see the editors flip back and forth on the term "supreme leader".

I wish this kind of edit-history/timeline/diff existed nicely in Wikipedia, but the existing tool in Wikipedia is too granular. I think a month view is the best for this kind of analysis.

https://memoryhole.app/wiki-timeline/compare?title=Kim+Jong+...

devilsdata

a day ago

The truth is politically slanted too, according to some.