Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 3 days agoDo you donate to Wikipedia?message-squaremessage-square65linkfedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down12
arrow-up198arrow-down1message-squareDo you donate to Wikipedia?Blaze (he/him)@piefed.social to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square65linkfedilink
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoIs there any equivalent in non-Western countries?
minus-square🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoWell in China Baidu has Baike, but it doesn’t get a lot of contribution. (Part of it, but only part, is that contributions are gatekept pretty strongly to keep in line with content laws.)
minus-square🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days ago(If I’d have wanted to be a smartass, I would have replied “yes, they’re called ‘libraries’”. See how I was careful to be a not-smartass? 🤣)
Is there any equivalent in non-Western countries?
Well in China Baidu has Baike, but it doesn’t get a lot of contribution. (Part of it, but only part, is that contributions are gatekept pretty strongly to keep in line with content laws.)
(If I’d have wanted to be a smartass, I would have replied “yes, they’re called ‘libraries’”. See how I was careful to be a not-smartass? 🤣)
Appreciated!