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Carol Easton @Volksmarcher
Reported 2021-01-25 17:42:48
If you have ever won an argument using a Wikipedia article, learned something new, or taken a deep dive down a Wikipedia rabbit hole for hours, join me in wishing @Wikipedia a happy 20th birthday! https://t.co/3B3wLVbat4 #Wikipedia20
Erik Van Djismie @ErikVanDjismie
Reported 2021-01-25 17:29:01
Sick of sports quizzes using this part of Wikipedia for answers, scroll down to the all stats part it aint hard. https://t.co/PyAl9tSNd9
JC @TheThornBird
Reported 2021-01-25 17:28:42
If you need a laugh, Wikipedia identifies #Abbas as the president of the
" State of #Palestine. "
More upside - down world.
There has never been and there is not now a
" State of Palestine." Oh well.
He is worth at least $100 million.
OpDeathEaters @OpDeathEaters
Reported 2021-01-25 17:26:57
@manoloforastero We agree completely, but what Twitter is doing is recreating every problem that Wikipedia has had forever.
Constituent 🌺🎗️⏳🗽 @808constituent
Reported 2021-01-25 17:24:50
@aria606 @grumpybirdieS Your first problem is using Wikipedia as a primary source.
Shows the level of your intellectualism.
Marquise de Nonsens @NonsensMarquise
Reported 2021-01-25 17:20:05
If you have ever won an argument using a Wikipedia article, learned something new, or taken a deep dive down a Wikipedia rabbit hole for hours, join me in wishing @Wikipedia a happy 20th birthday! https://t.co/fjr2ZNxK3A #Wikipedia20 #reader #editor
Michael Shultz @md_shultz
Reported 2021-01-25 17:12:14
@Sawantsayalee @DDonagan @Beaudog13 @va_shiva @FugEmAllButSix @Wikipedia So by what Shiva says, the judge did not dismiss the case. This means it has to go to the next stage. He was previously admonished by the judge for failure to make a good faith effort to resolve the issue. So it still has to make its way through the courts. Neither side had won
Beside Wonho @Beside_Wonho
Reported 2021-01-25 17:05:09
🌏WIKIPEDIA & STARPLAY REMINDER🌏
1) Write “Wonho” in the search bar
2) Open his Wikipedia page (through the link on his profile)
3) Scroll down and change the page mode to “desktop”
4) Stay on it for 3 minutes
*Watch the 4-6 ads on Starplay!
@official__wonho
#WONHO #원호 https://t.co/Fq2kHZRQUm
HALman @HALman1973
Reported 2021-01-25 17:00:35
@BBCPropaganda Wikipedia is for wallies. If you want facts, go to a library (before they burn them down)
Gringo Respecter @lampsofgold
Reported 2021-01-25 16:56:41
This, (not so)incidentally, is exactly the problem wikipedia has experienced. The right is able to game systems that rely on respectability to exclude minorities and entrench white power in the framing of their articles.
Baron von Support Sex Workers @kinkybaron
Reported 2021-01-25 16:55:42
@jamieluvsaj @AcostaKathryn @mrs_socialista @jimmy_dore Are you okay? Like seriously. You're taking a hundred years of nuanced and complicated history and distilling it down to one translated word in Wikipedia to make a point that you don't need to use Hitler for thats still also incorrect while being right.....
Scott Owen, Perpetual Browncoat @drunkcynic
Reported 2021-01-25 16:54:20
@C***andraRules The problem with the Wikipedia army is it centered on group think.
don Luis Vega @Borinquens
Reported 2021-01-25 16:53:23
"San Francisco-based Twitter is trying to ensure 'Birdwatch' has diverse range of perspectives & participants — an ongoing problem at Wikipedia, where many of the contributors & editors are white men. The program will start with 1,000 users & eventually expand beyond the U.S."
Seana Davis @Seana_Davis
Reported 2021-01-25 16:53:01
By comparing Twitter to Wikipedia or Reddit, you’re missing the infrastructure element here too. Reddit is a forum and Wikipedia is essentially a network of trolling. Neither platform has had to deal with the issue of viral misinformation as much as Twitter.
KrysX 4 Liberty @Krysx7
Reported 2021-01-25 16:48:31
With wikipedia trending I'd like to reminisce on how long it took and how much of a war it was to get them to accept that @Jorgensen4POTUS was an actual presidential candidate in 2020. And how they took down everything actual libertarians wrote about libertarians....
Queen of Clean @sullivanclean
Reported 2021-01-25 16:48:15
@faye_derek I was on YouTube and one of those reaction people did Stay by Shakespeare’s Sister. In the comments someone said Mercella Detroit co-wrote Clapton’s Lay Down Sally. So I go to Wikipedia to find that she is now 68. Not only that but she is Jay Aston’s sister in law!
Sanchez @sanchez_cc361
Reported 2021-01-25 16:45:41
@HeeksTom @oJeggerr @kyleetan2021 @natalielucillek @AOC Actually no, I'm not uncomfortable bc if you knew more then what wikipedia told you. You would know that fascism is a political philosophy any political party can use to shut down opposing views and beliefs.
William Wadsworth @WWadsworthIII
Reported 2021-01-25 16:41:06
@glnott Waiting for the Wikipedia article: Robinhood-Wall Street Bets Crash of 2021
kate's brain haus @frutitty
Reported 2021-01-25 16:36:07
listening to the undertale soundtrack on my ipod and trying to get autoconfirmed on wikipedia so i can fix the mh characters article
Seana Davis @Seana_Davis
Reported 2021-01-25 16:33:13
I also have an issue with comparing this move to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is a non-profit. Twitter is not. Crowdsourcing fact-checks won’t fix inherent issues.
SPENCER @SP1NS1R
Reported 2021-01-25 16:29:49
@Rudefire @micsolana I don't pretend to have the answer, though. This is the most difficult problem social has faced.
I am curious about Wikipedia's process for vetting & flagging citations -- need to research this more. Or maybe they have a similar problem and it's been overlooked by the public?
Owain Sutton @OwainAlty
Reported 2021-01-25 16:25:20
@MCRCycleSam Intended to be a sump buster? Wikipedia leads me to this one in Reading.
Probably not very effective against 4x4s. Won't be pushing for them as an effective measure down here!!! https://t.co/rmQL4m1G6t
ItsKeem -BLM✊🏾 @MiamiMadeKeem
Reported 2021-01-25 16:23:55
@VictoryEssays @jakedasnake0695 @realslim987 @RhettDavis9 @Ynohtnareklaw @cnnbrk well it's also because of years wiki has been looked down upon by schools for having random people edit wiki pages when in fact Wikipedia does not do that anymore and only on a different website.
Dan Garrett @DanGarrett97
Reported 2021-01-25 16:22:59
NOT the prob I was referring 2, but how is it going doing 2 do that?>"...Twitter said it is trying to ensure that Birdwatch has a diverse range of perspectives and participants — an ongoing problem at Wikipedia, where many of the contributors and editors are white men."
Toslap @toslap
Reported 2021-01-25 16:19:45
@TwitterSupport @birdwatch Yep cause there’s no issue with Wikipedia or fact checking by popular vote
Mike Dunford @questauthority
Reported 2021-01-25 16:18:52
@attyzachmiller @EcurbWordoow @ConnollyIP @MithradatesVI @thewolflawyer @kevinrsours @KathrynTewson @JosephLPoulin @LoveMyTN @JanSwar72588347 Are you *seriously* going to cite wikipedia at me? For freaking real?
The original is not hard to track down. Guess what? It doesn't say what you think. Ellsworth didn't participate, let alone join anything, and the opinions were *EXPRESSLY* issued seriatim. https://t.co/VUWGbx8tea
Kamau O. Curtis @EnviroSci
Reported 2021-01-25 16:15:07
@JackBurg9 @BeerGuyTeeM @ScrappyDogWorks @KashieWM @MrAhmednurAli Check out her Wikipedia too.. She never has a positive comment about black ppl. She only attempts to tear ppl down. Fake expert but never finished school,etc,etc. Even her old coworkers said she was only about the money and panders to whoever writes the checks.
Zachary Murray @Rudefire
Reported 2021-01-25 16:10:09
@micsolana @SP1NS1R Hard to sum up full thoughts here without it looking bad, and reputation was a bad choice of word, but I don't know what else to call it. An overlay with wikipedia style sources so people could make up their own minds, on people and concepts. I dunno, Twitter is broken though.
Les Roy @lrtweeter
Reported 2021-01-25 16:06:11
If you have ever won an argument using a Wikipedia article, learned something new, or taken a deep dive down a Wikipedia rabbit hole for hours, join me in wishing @Wikipedia a happy 20th birthday! https://t.co/x19aHoxz4l #Wikipedia20
Joanbeam3000 @Joanbeam3000
Reported 2021-01-25 16:04:17
@univrsle @TondaMacC Just act, indeed. Right down to updating a Wikipedia page, in Ramesh Sangha's case. 🎯
#CdnPoli
#CdnMedia https://t.co/idxzsETtWh
✨puca beag 👻 @grywrn1
Reported 2021-01-25 16:00:27
mom just told me to start thinking of dog names and I went straight to the Wikipedia article for biblical names. please put me down.
Mason Blue @MasonIsBloo
Reported 2021-01-25 16:00:06
@thelindsayellis Yeah but somehow the intro of his wikipedia page calls him "widely revered in the United States as an advocate for democracy and the common man" and says "surveys of historians and scholars have ranked Jackson favorably among U.S. presidents." Someone should fix that :I
Pamela "Meeko" Rouse & #STAYHOME @meekorouse
Reported 2021-01-25 15:56:43
...hate the idea roads will be flooded (again) with flooded w/ janky "K" cars... I have no issue with folks driving a nice Prius made in... where?? (looking at Wikipedia) https://t.co/nOtKblmwG8
Varun Singh @VarunJuice
Reported 2021-01-25 15:54:06
@micsolana Founder of wikipedia stated that where wikipedia fails to ascertain truth is for polarizing topics. Twitter is trying to solve that problem but using a technique the pioneer says doesn't work. 🤷🏾♂️
ben Baruch 🍋 🦁 @nowthatiamiwas
Reported 2021-01-25 15:50:03
@Immort4l_Legacy Wow. Unless we get on this hard it's going to make the antisemitism on this app so much worse. For proof: wikipedia. Letting ****boy69, ZiosEatBabies, and ProfessorWithRealDegree vote on what constitutes a fact is a problem.
Jonathan Dresner @jondresner
Reported 2021-01-25 15:45:45
Twitter users: "Please ban fascists and liars and har***ers, and make the service safe for everyone"
Twitter: "What if Twitter were more like Wikipedia?"
Brite Brasi @nes_dv15
Reported 2021-01-25 15:45:15
Bruh these fools on here flapping they lips like I’m all 🧢!! **** the internet 🤡’s I got REAL PROOF!! Wait til Wikipedia fix my **** I’m on all y’all *** 💯
Uncle Teeeeeege @cerpin415
Reported 2021-01-25 15:39:20
Wikipedia is falsified daily. This is a non-solution to a gargantuan problem
Michael Shultz @md_shultz
Reported 2021-01-25 15:35:29
@Sawantsayalee @DDonagan @Beaudog13 @va_shiva @FugEmAllButSix @Wikipedia He did not write a peer reviewed paper on this. Prove me wrong and share. His list of publications that he put out has no such paper. I have no issue with the peer reviewed papers he has published. https://t.co/kefXbPscRZ
Qblurt @Qblurts
Reported 2021-01-25 15:25:23
@teddyBLX @RealRyanAshe @TwitterSupport @birdwatch If they appointed Sean Hannity to pick the gatekeepers, you'd see the problem. The leftist editors who already infest Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia etc. constantly censor facts, including some they admitted were true after the election. That's the point, in fact.
Hot To Trot @hottrotny
Reported 2021-01-25 15:22:55
@oneunderscore__ @BrandyZadrozny Do not ****ing compare Twitter and goddamn Reddit to Wikipedia. Lol
That should be the first thing stricken down by this birdwatch ****
Furmarley @AKAFurmarley
Reported 2021-01-25 15:09:29
@TwitterSupport @birdwatch The problem is that what from i can see, bots can bomb a tweet to spin the facts. I hope you prepared, as Wikipedia did a strong community moderation system.
Grizzly - Anxious Werebear @AGrizzlyBeard
Reported 2021-01-25 15:03:49
Is it weird that a hobby of mine is just to find a random topic that interests me on Wikipedia and just... got down a rabbit hole of fun facts and random knowledge?
Alexander Brunk @AlexanderBrunk
Reported 2021-01-25 14:58:14
@politicalmath Crowdsourcing seems to have worked with Wikipedia, so perhaps this will be more effective than a top-down system of folks at the social media companies selecting which posts should get tagged as untrue?
mr. waddlesplash @waddlesplash
Reported 2021-01-25 14:21:44
@dannypgh @mcmillen @sortiecat I think I have something on this somewhere, looking for it. But directly from that Wikipedia article, 2006: 1.4M unauthorized persons in Texas, $1.58B in taxes from them, est. $1.16B in state services used; $0.42B left over or $300/person. Peanuts compared to the problem.
Craig Naples @crgn
Reported 2021-01-25 14:06:54
@redrichie @nailheadparty "The post's author may love it."*
* source: Wikipedia article about problem of consciouness
Travis Jackson @travisdon1981
Reported 2021-01-25 13:57:10
@theosib2 @paulogia0 @Lionheart213072 @SnowLover1337 @EboiLeon1 @Ian_Rinken Although I despise Wikipedia, I'll accept the info. I'll look up Gary Wolf.
True, but then again, "atheist" can be used disparagingly as well, and yet atheists have no problem with the term.
Billy Ray Valentine @spongeclipper
Reported 2021-01-25 13:45:10
@chris_bail Cynical take: Crowds are sort of the problem, not the solution.
Optimistic take: Wikipedia seems to...mostly work?
auri❄️✨ @woah_its_auri
Reported 2021-01-25 13:37:14
@Neon_woof i went down a carnivorous plant wikipedia rabbit hole earlier this week and i always thought venus fly traps were in like deep rainforests or some **** and then i saw that they're local to the carolinas and my whole life felt like a lie
brenzoomer @brenzoomer
Reported 2021-01-25 13:37:12
If you have ever won an argument using a Wikipedia article, learned something new, or taken a deep dive down a Wikipedia rabbit hole for hours, join me in wishing @Wikipedia a happy 20th birthday! https://t.co/oTkF5b2Bnp #Wikipedia20