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Why Wikipedia’s Highway Editors Took the Exit Ramp (slate.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by hedge to c/technology

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[–] jarfil 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Ben and the team of 40 Wikipedia editors split from the site to create the separate AARoads Wiki

So they've created a secondary source that now can be referenced in Wikipedia. Good for them.

In the near term, the secession harms not just Wikipedia itself, which needs robust road information...

Does it? It's an encyclopedia, not a map.

...but also generative A.I. tools that rely on Wikipedia as training data.

Ah right, because people want a single stop source for AI training without bothering about training dataset copyrights... is that it?

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah i don't think another wiki is a reliable source. I think that would fall under user forums or some shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable_sources either way, good for them lol

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think robust road information would be good for Wikipedia. I used Wikipedia as a guide on drawing Heraldry, which it has great resources for and even example images to trace off of.

"It's an encyclopaedia, not an art tutorial!"

[–] jarfil 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There is still Portal:Roads, it looks reasonably robust to me.

"It's an encyclopaedia, not an art tutorial!"

Actually... an encyclopedia is an "everything" kind of intro tutorial. It isn't supposed too get to much in depth though, that's what sources are for.

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