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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
I would argue that wikipedia is on par with youtube, especially since it is not as influenced by corporate pressure.
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Wanna learn how to get a key that’s broken off in a lock out of the lock?
YouTube.
Wanna take advanced calculus courses for free?
YouTube.
Wanna learn how to assemble a Subaru boxer engine piece by piece?
YouTube.
The finer points of positional defence in hockey?
Coach Jeremy, on YouTube.
Any specific scene from most movies/television produced in the last seventy years?
Build a thorium nuclear reactor?
You see where I’m going.
You can change a Wikipedia entry. You can’t change a YouTube video. You can delete it, but you can’t change it.
And the comments, in a way, offer a sort of natural peer review that Wikipedia can’t match.
It’s not to say that there aren’t lots of awful qualities about YouTube, but I don’t think the kids who built this platform in their garage 15 years ago thought they were creating the digital Library of Alexandria.