Jimmy Wales
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And point out potentially biased terms to rewrite it to be more neutral.
Now, it is a bit anodyne and it's a bit, you know, cliched.
So sometimes it just takes the spirit out of something that's actually not bad.
It's just like, you know, poetic language.
And you're like, okay, that's not actually helping.
But in many cases, I think that sort of thing is quite interesting.
And I'm also interested in, you know...
Can you imagine where you feed in a Wikipedia entry and all the sources, and you say, help me find anything in the article that is not accurately reflecting what's in the sources.
And that doesn't have to be perfect.
It only has to be good enough to be useful to a community.
So if it scans an article and all the sources, and you say, oh, it came back with...
10 suggestions, and seven of them were decent, and three of them it just didn't understand.
Well, actually, that's probably worth my time to do.
And it can help us really more quickly get good people to sort of review obscure entries and things like that.
Yeah, there's a famous webcomic that's titled Cytogenesis, which is about how somethingβan error's in Wikipedia, and there's no source for it, but then a lazy journalist reads it and writes the source.
And then some helpful Wikipedian spots that it has no source, finds the source, and adds it to Wikipedia.
And voila, magic.
This happened to me once.
Well, it nearly happened.
There was thisβ