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comment by NotPhil
NotPhil  ·  4803 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Meme Weaver
> It’s not expert knowledge, it’s common knowledge.

If I remember correctly, some of the studies which have tried to gauge the accuracy of Wikipedia compared to traditional encyclopedias concluded that Wikipedia's great for uncontroversial subjects, but it starts faltering on subjects where the information we all tell each other is wrong or things which aren't very well, or very widely, understood.