bleistift2 ( @bleistift2@feddit.de ) English20•4 months agoSure, act like Wikipedia hasn’t written all your school essays since 5th grade.
Catoblepas ( @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 12•4 months agoStop making me wither into a shriveled husk, when I was in 5th grade my school had literally just the year before converted the library from a notecard system to a computer search system for books. 😭
Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) 5•4 months agoWho’s that fella on the left?
survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 11•4 months agoThey are from an illustration of how big wikipedia would be if it were printed in books like volumes of a typical encyclopedia. Unfortunately, it is misrepresented here, because they only show the equivalent of 4 bookshelves in this meme, when the original illustration was 17 shelves (about 4x what is pictured here). So basically, wikipedia would comfortably line the walls of an average-sized study. Source: WIKIPEDIA - Size in Volumes
Interestingly, the link I just shared would fall under the category “Lording it over Britannica” in OP’s meme.
Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) 4•4 months agoWhoa that’s super cool!
bleistift2 ( @bleistift2@feddit.de ) English1•4 months agoThat’s still comprehensible. I would’ve thought Wikipedia was bigger.
skye ( @skylestia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•4 months agoBlue Buddy