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Is there a collection of all human knowledge ever created ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by saltynuts420@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Recently I was wandering if there is someone or some group preserving , collecting , organizing and publishing all the knowledge of mankind ever created throughout its existence so that if ever mankind faces the 6th mass extinction we don't have to reinvent the wheel and can have a kick start to our new post apocalyptic civilization .

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[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why aren't they a force for good anymore?

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many reasons most of which you'll only understand if you pay some attention to what's going on behind their scenes.

There are reasons why nowadays pretty much everywhere else on the Internet more content is created all the time than on the Wikimedia projects.

The Wikipedias' "neutral point of view" policy used to mean "we try to treat all sides fairly", now it means "we are writing an unconditional propaganda organ for the status quo". The mainstream media that is accepted as "reliable" as Wikipedia sources just isn't that credible anymore.

Also, when I started editing there, the individual projects were mostly left alone by the WMF. Nowadays the WMF issues intransparent sanctions, up to lifetime bans from all projects, left and right.

I wish someone started an organization with the same goals as the WMF with an actually working system where people could actually enjoy participating.

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Be the change you want to see in the world...

Heck most of the hard work is already done for you, since the software that runs Wikipedia is open source.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many people have tried that before. Wikis just aren't that appealing anymore. Today's internet is all about social media.

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If there's anything that is absolutely atrocious as a searchable repository of knowledge, it's social media.