So, recently I’ve been reading a lot into China mostly, and a bit of North Korea, and I have found some Wikipedia articles that literally use fake news as sources or similar stuff, I really appreciate Wikipedia as a whole but I think that it has some flaws in certain areas, it would be cool if we could all fix those in a way that gets approved so that we help fight against misinformation.

I know that @dessalines@lemmy.ml has a GitHub repository full with articles and news that can be used to discredit these, and while I think it will be super useful to this cause and in general, not everyone is going to go through that or is going to even find it, whereas Wikipedia draws a lot of visits.

I know that Wikipedia has a bad reputation and all, but I think that if we do it good there’s no way they can prohibit the edits.

I think starting here would be a good way to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_trim_our_hair_in_accordance_with_the_socialist_lifestyle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard_and_haircut_laws_by_country#North_Korea

  • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    Honestly, Wikipedia seems like the worst place to try to get political information no matter what side of the political spectrum you’re on. I pretty much only use it as a starting point for STEM topics, where I haven’t seen much deviation from objectivity thankfully. It does have mistakes though so obviously people should look at the sources, I prefer to just use it to find the sources.