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Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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Great article, would highly recommend anyone with the time give it a full read through.
Wikipedia is incredibly valuable, and insanely well edited and put together, and we're all lucky to have something like it available for free.
And their merch is 🔥, just saying.
Where are the [citation needed] stickers, though?
They used to sell those on the xkcd store and I was going to link to them but it seems the store is closed now.
sigh [citation needed]
There's a pretty good Citation Needed newsletter and podcast run by former Wikipedia Arbitrator Molly White that also has a store that of course has [citation needed] merch. The newsletter and podcast is pretty good, too; the Verge article even links to it.
the sticker, for anyone curious.
They have what?
Here we go! Dang, they even got pins!
Thanks, these links are exactly what I was looking for once I read the parent comment
Oh no, they already have a Farewell Collection! /s
Yoooo https://store.wikimedia.org/products/internet-in-a-box
Could get you arrested in China.
Wikipedia is banned in china
Even if I stick it up my ass?
Not unless you brag about it.
Or share it over WiFi.
Thanks for encouraging to read the whole thing. That is a loooong article! But a great informative read. Took me a couple of sittings to read it all properly, well worth it!
I had no idea about so many of the challenges they’ve gone through & seemingly managed to fight back so many attempts to control & mask the content on more volatile subjects. Always had a lot of respect for the editors, but even more so now.
I do donate a small amount to them once or twice a year. I think I will try to increase my donations going forward knowing it might help with some of their legal fights.
Knowledge really is power, & we all deserve access to true knowledge, more now than ever it seems.
CONTINUE READING WITH A VERGE SUBSCRIPTION AND SUCK MY FAT COCK
Lots of it is still pretty shit, but that's what happens when you have an entry on incredibly obscure things where there's not a lot of sources information.