{"id":485,"date":"2025-11-01T07:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/11\/01\/grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:27:37","slug":"grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/11\/01\/grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human"},"content":{"rendered":"

…behind the scenes, there had been robust conversation and debate by Wikipedia editors as to exactly what constitutes an \u201cunusual\u201d death, and that several previously listed \u201cunusual\u201d deaths had been deleted from the list for not being weird enough. For example: People who had been speared to death with beach umbrellas are \u201cno longer an unusual or unique occurrence\u201d; \u201chippos are extremely dangerous and very aggressive and there is nothing unusual about hippos killing people\u201d; \u201cmysterious circumstances doesn\u2019t mean her death itself was unusual.\u201d These are the types of edits and conversations that have collectively happened billions of times that make Wikipedia what it is, and which make it so human, so interesting, so useful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On even the lowest of stakes Wikipedia pages, real humans with real taste and real thoughts and real perspectives discuss and debate the types of information that should be included in any given article, in what order it should be presented, and the specific language that should be used. They do this under a framework of byzantine rules that have been battle tested and debated through millions of edit wars, virtual community meetings, talk page discussions, conference meetings, inscrutable listservs which themselves have been informed by Wikimedia\u2019s \u201cmission statement,\u201d the \u201cWikimedia values,\u201d its \u201cfounding principles\u201d and\u00a0policies and guidelines<\/a>\u00a0and tons of other stated and unstated rules, norms, processes and procedures. All of this behind-the-scenes legwork is essentially invisible to the user but is very serious business to the human editors building and protecting Wikipedia and its related projects (the high cultural barrier to entry for editors is also why it is difficult to find new editors for Wikipedia, and is something that the Wikipedia community is always discussing how they can fix without ruining the project). Any given Wikipedia page has been stress tested by actual humans who are discussing, for example, whether it\u2019s actually that unusual to get speared to death by a beach umbrella.\u2014 Read on www.404media.co\/grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…behind the scenes, there had been robust conversation and debate by Wikipedia editors as to exactly what constitutes an \u201cunusual\u201d death, and that several previously listed \u201cunusual\u201d deaths had been deleted from the list for not being weird enough. For example: People who had been speared to death with beach umbrellas are \u201cno longer an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,7,30,19,18,29],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-categories","tag-consciousness","tag-grokipedia","tag-knowledge","tag-point-of-view","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}