“… and as such was already out of date by the time you got it.”
And more than likely was more than a decade out of date when you first opened it.
Not nobody. My dad got a yearly honorarium for updating the section of the Encyclopedia Brittanica in his area of expertise. We’d also get a free set, and donate the previous one to a school library. I’m sure there were hundreds of others like him back in those days.
honorarium
New word for me
Should work for some high-brow accusations one may want to make about the promiscuity of another’s mother
“and that’s written by verified experts that aren’t anonymous.”
They aren’t written by experts. They are written by the chrapest writer that could be found. The error rates on a traditional encyclopedia is about the same as on Wikipedia. The only thing people love more than making shit up os calling people out when you know they are making shit up. Wikipedia is just as acceptable an academic source as Encyclopedia Brittanica. You can use it for some non-critical tangentially related information, but it’s a starting off point
There’s some articles on math topics that are essentially textbook quality
Kind of related but KiwiX is an app that can allow people to view Wikipedia while offline. All you need is the Wikipedia ZIM file that comes in various sizes. There’s also several other Wikis that are available for download.
I can totally edit an encyclopedia. Just cross shit out and write in whatever I want with whiteout and a pen.
(This is from cohost)
Yea legit I saw this post natively a few hours ago and questioned if I had opened Lemmy or not, I may also be tired af
I got markers…
hell yea cohost representation
