Wikipedia does encourage people to acquire CliffsNotes-style overviews of things, which is excellent for maths and physics (the radius of the first orbit in a hydrogen atom needs no context) but perhaps less so for the kind of "liberal arts" knowledge that citizenship goes with
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And I disagree about the context/history part. Wikipedia lets you go into massively long context bunnytrails. They just don’t stay on the paths academics think you ought to stay on for a subject, but jump around.
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The literacy needed is not very different from literacy needed to navigate scholarly conflicts, and it’s a good thing that a broader group is getting trained on that, even if the edit wars are far less decorous
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American Chopper meme about Wikipedia edit wars when
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I think that is what Venk is describing as his utopian society.
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No, it’s the condition that exists. I happen to think it is better than what came before and we can do better still. But I’m defending the value of Wikipedia-literate populace as it exists, not some ideal where every corner case conflict topic is understood correctly by all


