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What is going on with Wikipedia and now a bunch of people seem to hate it? What did they do to piss people off? Did they change something? (lemmy.world)
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I am a self proclaimed wiki-phile, I always donated when I could. It was kind of like going to the library without the fresh book smell.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The point is that many conservatives have hated Wikipedia for a long time, and Conservapedia is a microcosm of why, not that the alternatives are necessarily good.