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But first, one simple rule: whatever scrutiny you apply to PickiPedia by dint of it being non-trivially a shitposted farce, apply that same scrutiny to all wikis. Understand that this scrutiny is a bedrock of wiki collaboration. Wikis are not sources of truth; they are sources of sources. | But first, one simple rule: whatever scrutiny you apply to PickiPedia by dint of it being non-trivially a shitposted farce, apply that same scrutiny to all wikis. Understand that this scrutiny is a bedrock of wiki collaboration. Wikis are not sources of truth; they are sources of sources. | ||
==Hmm. OK.== | |||
Don't get it twisted: we love WikiPedia; it's one of the most important and heartfelt ventures in the short history of the human animal. But [[PickiPedia:Is Not Wikipedia]]. A wiki can only thrive in an environment where the actual text of the page is treated as fallible consensus, not as assured (or even in some sense, asserted) truth. | |||
All the trolling, satire, and farce you'll find on PickiPedia exists on every wiki in the world, but it's dressed up as processes and whitepapers. And instead of being patently ludicrous and hopefully a little funny, it tells of a world as seen by industries and interests that can afford not only to brigade and bot farm, but to carefully study the effects of brigades and bot farms. | |||
Revision as of 04:07, 31 January 2026
Is everything on PickiPedia true?
Yes, every word and symbol is accurate within a precision of 99.9999%, and we know this because site administrator wikipedia:Bil Monroe personally verifies all edits, with the exception of Jimmy Martin's Theory of Bluegrass Pythagoras, which is administered by wikipedia:Carlton Haney.
Yeah, fine - that's funny. But seriously, some of this is satire, right?
No. 100% serious.
OK, but like, you can't keep saying that forever. People aren't gonna be cool putting genuine content here if they can't figure out if it's satire.
...ugh, fine.
But first, one simple rule: whatever scrutiny you apply to PickiPedia by dint of it being non-trivially a shitposted farce, apply that same scrutiny to all wikis. Understand that this scrutiny is a bedrock of wiki collaboration. Wikis are not sources of truth; they are sources of sources.
Hmm. OK.
Don't get it twisted: we love WikiPedia; it's one of the most important and heartfelt ventures in the short history of the human animal. But PickiPedia:Is Not Wikipedia. A wiki can only thrive in an environment where the actual text of the page is treated as fallible consensus, not as assured (or even in some sense, asserted) truth.
All the trolling, satire, and farce you'll find on PickiPedia exists on every wiki in the world, but it's dressed up as processes and whitepapers. And instead of being patently ludicrous and hopefully a little funny, it tells of a world as seen by industries and interests that can afford not only to brigade and bot farm, but to carefully study the effects of brigades and bot farms.
