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Free online encyclopedia lauded as the internet's crowning achievement for its volunteer-maintained content and lack of commercialization

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"Reliable entries on any topic, place, person, etc updated in real time by an army of volunteers. No annoying pop-ups. No required login captcha test dual factor authentication bs. No $4 for the first 4 months, no family subscriptions, no article limits, no shitty UX enhancements, no payola schemes. "
Wikipedia is the internet's crowning achievement · u/Eastern-Bookkeeper68 · ↑1134 · 2025-01-02
"one of the best ultra runners in history has been caught downplaying her adversaries' Wikipedia pages and beefing up her own, repeatedly. Now she's losing all her sponsors, telling people she's been bullied, and issuing non-apologies left and right."
The ultra running world just got hit with the biggest drama yet · u/DashasBaldHead · ↑249 · 2024-09-28
"Turns out Mozart's dad is in blue on Wikipedia"
Just found out Mozart was a nepo baby · u/rightaroundhere_ · ↑468 · 2024-06-02
"I genuinely feel with projects like Elon musk promoting all kinds of insane race takes, and wanting to make 'his own Wikipedia' in tandem with shit like 'race realist' channels appearing all over"
Truly black pilled by the racism lately · u/Worried_Lawfulness43 · ↑370 · 2025-10-07
"At this point I use the internet to browse Wikipedia, explore google earth, and download books/movies/games"
The internet is boring · u/Masaniello_ · ↑129 · 2022-11-19
"was how on the wikipedia page for an ethnic group they took away the grid at the top of notable people belonging to that ethnic group"
The biggest loss of the anti-racism culture wars · u/redeemedleafblower · ↑88 · 2024-02-05
"It's not even hard to fuck, check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_hole_(sexual_slang)"
What's all the incel posts about? · u/kolognedyez · ↑85 · 2021-04-29
"wikipedia is right there and it's free and i heard the guy is even taking donations if you have spare cash to pay for the Addicting Talmud Game or whatever"
"been bored on wikipedia and have been checking out small east coast towns"
are small towns just going to blink out of existence · u/rspgroceryguy · ↑75 · 2024-03-05
"Stop acting like you're some sort of public intellectual when your only sources are Wikipedia and ChatGPT."
Fuck video essays · u/Dry_Health2506 · ↑75 · 2024-09-07
"There is currently a civil war on Wikipedia between pro Israel groups and pro-Palestine groups."
"Real life and people are not packed into the Wikipedia descriptions of political ideologies."
"Politically incoherent" is the most midwit term of the year · u/govfundedextremist · ↑69 · 2025-03-24
"The only thing I will allow myself to go on for fun if I have the urge is Wikipedia."
"Her husband is blue on wikipedia 💀💀💀"
I just found out that Hillary Clinton is a nepo baby · u/WillMulford · ↑64 · 2024-06-03
"Every person I've ever talked they say they read a big book then you ask them about it the best they can do is paraphrase-repeat a quote from first paragraph of the wikipedia"
Knowledge isn't real · u/[deleted] · ↑63 · 2021-02-10
"Like I literally just looked at a Wikipedia page for Diane Arbus and remembered a time an old teacher told me my photography was mid/boring"
Intrusive thoughts of embarrassing memories and talking to myself · u/throwawayfet1sh · ↑61 · 2023-07-19
"Ive been reading wikipedia articles for the past month and it makes me feel autistic for some reason. Like there's something more dignified about reading books for example"
Any wikicels? · u/[deleted] · ↑57 · 2022-11-26
"Wasting fossil energy to make a chat bot come up with a worse answer than you could find on Wikipedia"
"Their parents have Wikipedia pages and this person grew up relatively wealthy"
I'm a bitter little baby: Help · u/AdLife2411 · ↑56 · 2022-03-29
"i tried listening to you're wrong about but they literally do not say anything interesting, it's like they're reading the wikipedia page for each event/person."
actually interesting podcast reccomendations · u/salted_oatmeal · ↑56 · 2024-02-17
"Which one of you is the depths of Wikipedia IG account"
Which one of you is the depths of Wikipedia IG account · u/clown_motel_ · ↑54 · 2022-04-01
"We're the biggest information source on the internet! We totally don't get a bunch of funding from intelligence agencies and private entities pushing their agenda"
"If you read his Wikipedia u can legit see he just had a rich dad and jumped around undergrads and then dropped out of phd programme"
"As Wikipedia, the most reliable source of information this side of the highway states."
The term BIPOC sounds like a BMX brand of bikes. · u/BubbyThePhotographer · ↑50 · 2021-10-11
"For example, the 'List of totalitarian regimes' article on Wikipedia has been in a soft editing war arguably ever since the article was created."
"We got the smartphone... Social Media... generative AI... Streaming services...doordash... Wikipedia and Google maps are pretty awesome I guess."
Have Tech Bros improved the world at all? · u/Jimbaneighba · ↑48 · 2024-03-18
"Eventually she is lead to a Wikipedia article on 'cat macros'. What's a macro? She doesn't know, but it has something to do with famed atheist Richard Dawkins, who invented the concept of 'memes'."
"I didn't dig down into the details to find out, but it blew my mind that this is something that has been scientifically studied."
"good thing i'm not a pleb and i read wikipedua for all my music recommendations"
spotify algorhythm has gotten shittier · u/[deleted] · ↑46 · 2021-05-15
"too many people who know what white phosphorous is If ur in one of the Israel/Palestine threads and you have Wikipedia open, u need to stop. Log out. I dont read wikipedia"
Israel - Palestine posts. need to be more schizo · u/DomStraussK · ↑46 · 2023-10-11
"When reading Wikipedia entries on world event post 2020 feels like the quality of documentation, writing, referenced material, and overall perspective that the article takes is no different than reading MSM."
Quality of Wikipedia going down? · u/walnuh77 · ↑45 · 2025-02-17
"I've been skimming Wikipedia articles, and I swear the birth dates and signs match up."
Astrology is real. · u/Oh_the_limerence · ↑44 · 2025-05-14
"The internet (especially places like Wikipedia) makes it feel like life can be easily summarised as a narrative, a story where everything makes sense."
The determinism and fatalism of today society. · u/Sianrys · ↑40 · 2024-02-11
"Edward Said is truly awesome, he had a strong grasp on both western tradition and eastern traditions, and significantly shifted sociological discourse in his work "Orientalism""
"There used to be a site called wikiwatchdog.com where you could search any wikipedia article to see which edits were made by known government/corporate/etc actors."
What happened to WikiWatchdog? · u/chungus_choppa · ↑39 · 2022-07-25
"No flair at all, no style, like a wikipedia article coming to life (plus lies added to help dramatize the story)"
"Decided to look up his research on Google and discovered his wiki page. For a small time academic, it was really, really long, had details about his personal life and research that only he would have known."
Ever had a professor that blatantly wrote their own Wikipedia page? · u/SunKilMarqueeMoon · ↑39 · 2023-12-02
"nah it ok we stole shit from Wikipedia when I was in highschool"
I wonder when the AI craze will end · u/ConvexNoumena · ↑39 · 2024-10-24
"all my knowledge abt that has been from skimming Wikipedia pages (which is enough to impress bitches but not good enough against an autistic med student)"
Need info about Nietzsche · u/Narrow-Payment-5300 · ↑38 · 2022-11-10
"I use the internet to look at aesthetic pics and Wikipedia so it's not even algorithm based"
"To quote the wikipedia entry (I know, I know, but it's sourced to a real history book)"
The Hidden Significance of the Square Roots of Years · u/PenuriousJupiter · ↑36 · 2025-12-18
"Is it a scam?? Their ads seem extra pathetic lately, making me feel guilty for scrolling away"
Anyone ever donate to Wikipedia?? · u/[deleted] · ↑35 · 2021-10-09
"Reading wikipedia page about 80s interesting. There is a lot of talk about reassesing history at the time"
"Dropped by Lululemon for editing her rival runner's achievements on Wikipedia to downplay them."
Ultimate RS marathon runner · u/RtdFgt_ · ↑33 · 2024-09-27
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing"
Wikipedia meta article on how to identify AI generated text · u/istealpintsfromcvs · ↑32 · 2025-09-14
"She even looked up the lore after and was reading Wikipedia articles about Scottish independence."
Women love the movie Braveheart · u/Far-Condition8586 · ↑31 · 2025-08-14
"No mention of r/ RSP on the Controversial Reddit Communities Wikipedia article"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities · u/TinyFig1018 · ↑31 · 2026-01-27
"he has had his LinkedIn profile removed and all references to him on Wikipedia erased"
Great men will never be allowed to exist again. · u/BeanziesBack · ↑30 · 2021-06-30
"If you're willing to go further, watch Marvel movies, collect funko pops, go vegan and jerk off to hentai, read history articles on Wikipedia and post on r/playboicarti."
Greetings - the solution is looksminning, not looksmaxxing · u/SummerTiny5062 · ↑30 · 2025-08-04
"Drop your favorite Wikipedia page links"
Drop your favorite Wikipedia page links · u/hillbillie_eilish · ↑29 · 2022-03-02

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