Probably to stop ill-intentioned people from putting their unfactual propaganda on the articles or something.
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jxk@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
To be fair, out of all non-federated platforms, Wikipedia is the one that needs federation the least.
vsg@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Honestly, if wikipedia ever becomes federated, i would assume it would split into platforms like conservapedia, rationalpedia, etc.
No thanks
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Which all, unfortunately, already exist
It’s always awesome when evil groups use the output from good folk torile against those good folk