• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Wikipedia was not then what it is now. You’re spot on with all that, spot on, but in the early days it wasn’t nearly as trustworthy.

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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      18 hours ago

      Fair enough, I’m not old enough to remember those days of Wikipedia, my memory starts in roughly 2010 wrt Wikipedia use 😅

      • ɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        15 hours ago

        You can check old versions of any article by clicking ‘history’. And yeah, the standards used to be pretty low.