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Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' (www.404media.co)
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[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fandom (previously Wikia) is an extremely shitty service with low-quality wikis mostly consisting of content copied from independent wikis and a terrible layout that only exists to amplify their overwhelming advertising.

[–] Tortellinius@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

While this is true, the majority of the wikis are not at all low quality. Some are the only ones existing for a topic. The wikis are community-based, after all.

But its easy to vandalize and is highly profit-driven. The fandom wikis are filled with ads that absolutely destroy navigation. Infamous is the video ad that scrolls you up automatically in the middle of reading once it finishes. You have to pause it to read the article with no interruption.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

my one weird trick for using fandom.com is to disable javascript for that domain.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What if they put anubis on it ?

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Anubis only does a proof of work challenge if you lack a specific cookie that it gives you. You can temporarily enable JavaScript, pass the challenge, get the cookie, then disable JavaScript.

I use uBlock Origin, btw, to make selectively enabling/disabling JavaScript per domain a simple two-click task.