Sci/Tech Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws

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The Internet is dotted with cesspools, also known as comments sections. Consider, for instance, the Facebook chatter surrounding a recent New York Times article about Donald Trump:

“Of course the general election has been rigged in favor of that lying-cow Hillary and against Trump,” one person wrote.

“She is a treacherous, lying, murderous woman that could care less of our rights and our constitution,” another added.

“NYT A TRASH TAG, not one scintilla of truth not any journalistic integrity this trash papet,” someone else said. (That comment got two likes.)

We might once have dreamed that the miracle of cheap, instant communication would knit society together. The reality has been closer to the opposite.

Thanks to the Web, we are able to cocoon ourselves among like-minded people and like-minded facts. Instead of finding common ground, we shout across the ideological divide — and in nastiest ways possible, because the distance of online discourse dissociates us from the consequences of our own speech.

It’s downright startling, then, to observe what happens behind the scenes at Wikipedia. Go to any article and visit the “talk” tab. More often than not, you'll find a somewhat orderly debate, even on contentious topics like Hillary Clinton's e-mails or Donald Trump's sexual abuse allegations.

Read more here. (The Washington Post)
 
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