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Is it dumb to create a wiki in this day and age?
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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Wikis are great and still very useful but I am wondering if you are using the right tool for the right job.
As people have pointed out any wiki is going to be subject to the biases of those who are editing it and, especially in politics, that's always going to be an issue.
What I'd suggest is a database of reliable information, probably keeping a copy of the original web page like The Internet Archive or WebCite. People could then request information in specific subjects. It seems an idea to have an AI in the mix as it would be able to understand context and give better quality returns (I was talking about this kind of thing in the pub at the weekend, a lot of the legal legwork by junior lawyers is looking up old legal cases for precedents and AI can do this quicker and better - it wouldn't tell the senior solicitor what to say in court but it would be able to provide him with the information he needs to decide how to proceed). You could even have a feature where people ask for a summary. It wouldn't necessarily be 100% correct but it'd be less biased than a human and help people decide which information to look at from the pile of returns.