Why Wikipedia’s Highway Editors Took the Exit Rampslate.comexternal-link hedge ( @hedge@beehaw.org ) TechnologyEnglish • edit-27 months ago message-square47arrow-up196
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minus-square jarfil ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink27•edit-27 months ago Ben and the team of 40 Wikipedia editors split from the site to create the separate AARoads Wiki So they’ve created a secondary source that now can be referenced in Wikipedia. Good for them. In the near term, the secession harms not just Wikipedia itself, which needs robust road information… Does it? It’s an encyclopedia, not a map. …but also generative A.I. tools that rely on Wikipedia as training data. Ah right, because people want a single stop source for AI training without bothering about training dataset copyrights… is that it?
minus-square azerial ( @azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglish4•7 months agoYeah i don’t think another wiki is a reliable source. I think that would fall under user forums or some shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources either way, good for them lol
minus-square Flax ( @Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-27 months agoI think robust road information would be good for Wikipedia. I used Wikipedia as a guide on drawing Heraldry, which it has great resources for and even example images to trace off of. “It’s an encyclopaedia, not an art tutorial!”
minus-square jarfil ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink2•edit-27 months agoThere is still Portal:Roads, it looks reasonably robust to me. “It’s an encyclopaedia, not an art tutorial!” Actually… an encyclopedia is an “everything” kind of intro tutorial. It isn’t supposed too get to much in depth though, that’s what sources are for.
So they’ve created a secondary source that now can be referenced in Wikipedia. Good for them.
Does it? It’s an encyclopedia, not a map.
Ah right, because people want a single stop source for AI training without bothering about training dataset copyrights… is that it?
Yeah i don’t think another wiki is a reliable source. I think that would fall under user forums or some shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources either way, good for them lol
I think robust road information would be good for Wikipedia. I used Wikipedia as a guide on drawing Heraldry, which it has great resources for and even example images to trace off of.
“It’s an encyclopaedia, not an art tutorial!”
There is still Portal:Roads, it looks reasonably robust to me.
Actually… an encyclopedia is an “everything” kind of intro tutorial. It isn’t supposed too get to much in depth though, that’s what sources are for.