Wikipedia rule

Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 105 points –
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Sure, act like Wikipedia hasn’t written all your school essays since 5th grade.

Stop making me wither into a shriveled husk, when I was in 5th grade my school had literally just the year before converted the library from a notecard system to a computer search system for books. 😭

Disinformation inserted by the CIA

I don't know why I'm surprised that's such a big fraction

Probably not needed, but just to be sure... the entire graphic is satire and all statistics it shows are made up :)

Who's that fella on the left?

They are from an illustration of how big wikipedia would be if it were printed in books like volumes of a typical encyclopedia. Unfortunately, it is misrepresented here, because they only show the equivalent of 4 bookshelves in this meme, when the original illustration was 17 shelves (about 4x what is pictured here). So basically, wikipedia would comfortably line the walls of an average-sized study. Source: WIKIPEDIA - Size in Volumes

Interestingly, the link I just shared would fall under the category "Lording it over Britannica" in OP's meme.

That’s still comprehensible. I would’ve thought Wikipedia was bigger.