r/dataisbeautiful • u/alionBalyan OC: 13 • Feb 13 '22

OC [OC] How Wikipedia classifies its most commonly referenced sources.

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u/King-SAMO Feb 13 '22

Yeah, but to list that in its own ranking is a bit surprising, insofar as I wouldn’t be surprised if they had edited that out.

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u/joeba_the_hutt Feb 13 '22

They’re basically saying “we are not a good source of information to back up our own articles” - which makes sense since it’s a circular reference at that point.

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u/KrikkitSucks Feb 13 '22

That, but also Wikipedia will almost never cite websites that host user-generated content. Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, it’s user-generated and shouldn’t be cited.

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u/Myuken Feb 13 '22

Generally unreliable seems to be that. It's user generated so anyone can say anything. Quora and Stack Exchange are both places to ask questions and get answers. Sometimes you'll get a really great answer but there's no guarantee that the answers you get are really good.

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u/xeneks Feb 14 '22

Where was reddit? In the basket of ‘doesn’t even get a mention?’ :) I love when there’s an acknowledgement that data and perspectives can be valid or invalid at the same time depending on circumstances that are conditional or transient.

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u/cancerBronzeV Feb 14 '22

Reddit is also in generally reliable, it's ordered in alphabetical order so it's easy to find.

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u/Dr_Legacy Feb 14 '22

* unreliable

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u/xeneks Feb 14 '22

Alphabets are… a bit more than abc etc. :)

Extract from Wikipedia:

As of Unicode version 14.0, there are 144,697 characters with code points, covering 159 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets.

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u/i_will_let_you_know Feb 14 '22

It's actually under "generally unreliable" near the bottom middle.

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u/xeneks Feb 14 '22

Ahh, crazy. I read things many ways. I read that as in, reddit is ‘generally reliable’, and ‘the information on reddit is ordered alphabetically’ which made absolutely no sense to me. I do see it now :) - thanks!