I don’t know. I’ve never heard that.

Wikipedia is extremely functional and convenient, but there are instances where it can be inaccurate. I wouldn’t recommend it for accademic research, better stick to first hand information, like books from researchers and historians. But for casual learning of words and concepts, there’s no harm in using it.

Hope to be helpful.

For reasons I describe here.

I made this post because on Wikipedia, especially the Indonesian version, most of the articles don’t have references.

Because people are becoming increasingly polarized, and more strongly hold on to their views with very little to no chance to consider they’re wrong or are being lied to. Half of wikipedia is written by “them”, and we cant’t be sure if the other half is “ours” or is some corpo shill. Ours is the post-truth century, and Wikipedia the carefuly curated repository of human knowledge no longer fits us.

@leonardrua (1/n) it’s not like that. U can trust Wikipedia. But if it is something really important then u should check the references it gives from research papers or some articles (which might be questioned or proved biased) so this is only the question of "Can you what ur given? Maybe something related to science… but not any political, religious or historical topics…

@leonardrua (n/n) You have to research yourself with primary sources. Cus historical bias of universal knowledge base by economists, religious leaders, politicians, historians and even archeologists have destroyed universal views of great civilization and have glorified even the worst historical events and civilizations).