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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yes, except all the information you seek is inside the great Wikipedia.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Depends on the subject matter. The less popular subject matters still should be read in books.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

And academic journals

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Depends on how "popular" of a subject it is. There are plenty of subjects on Wikipedia that are not popular enough to have ever been published about in print.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I guess that's the other side of the coin. I'm a Mesoamerican history nerd and a lot of the articles on Wiki are sparse at best on the subject or outright misinformation (repeated misinformation I see almost verbatim copied and pasted). I see your point though, without an easy way of archiving information a lot of subjects would and have fallen through the cracks in humanity's notice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I don't know about all the information, but I'd rather read Wikipedia about a historical event than watch a YouTube about it