I think wikipedia is one of the best sources around. People were trained to "dismiss" wikipedia or to cite its sources, but actually, as a document and a governance structure, its basically the last reliable source of "probably pretty close to the truth" around.
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Close, but the best source of information is actually some random podcast that I found when googling people who agree with me
This
I love it because back 20+ years ago it was frowned upon in school because it wasn’t trustworthy, and teachers would fail you for citing it in assignments. Now I feel like it’s the most trusted source on the Internet.
I still don't think you should cite Wikipedia. Read the citations Wikipedia provides and cite those!
I would use wikipedia as a really nice source of sources. I actually convinced a middle school teacher of this, and she changed her spiel on Wikipedia accordingly.
Imho Wikipedia is just one of the greatest achievements of humanity championing knowledge and accessibility without greedy enshitification.
For you and anyone else interested, Kiwix can be used to keep an offline copy of Wikipedia (the one I have from a few months ago is 112GB I think for pictures being included) and that way you can rest easy knowing the regime in the USA hasn't taken down or taken over Wikipedia!
That might be really useful. Thank you for sharing such an useful resource! It might also be useful to all the people who live in countries where the internet is expensive or hardly accessible
I'm glad I was able to help some! I just want to say that Kiwix can be self-hosted too! I have it running on my TrueNAS Scale setup, and it works very well! :)
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Dude I fucking LOVE Wikipedia. It's such a great time killer when it's a slow day at work.
I've learnt si many things like that