Everybody loves Wikipedia, the surprisingly serious encyclopedia and the last gasp of Old Internet idealism!
(90 seconds later)
We regret to inform you that people write credulous shit about “AI” on Wikipedia as if that is morally OK.
Both of these are somewhat less bad than they were when I first noticed them, but they’re still pretty bad. I am puzzled at how the latter even exists. I had thought that there were rules against just making a whole page about a neologism, but either I’m wrong about that or the “rules” aren’t enforced very strongly.
None of my acquaintances who have Wikipedian insider experience have much familiarity with the “Did you know” box. It seems like a niche within a niche that operates without serious input from people who care about the rest of the project.
“In The News” is apparently also an editor clique with its own weird dynamics, but it doesn’t elevate as many weird tiny articles to the Main Page because the topics there have to be, you know, in the news.
yeah, “Did you know” exists to encourage new articles, or major expansions of old ones. it cycles every six hours I think.
From how they’re labeled, I think they cycle every day?