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no banana@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library

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Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library

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    And then there’s the scots language wiki;

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia

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      There was also some Korean lady doing a bunch of Russian history for a decade.

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      afaik Wikipedia shut down the Greenlandic language version to prevent this exact situation, apparently the language used there was getting very poor

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      The quotes used in the article sound like something Groundkeeper Willie would say. Im not sure why anyone would take them seriously.

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      Man why people so mean. I highly doubt he did actual damage

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        I think this person has possibly done more damage to the Scots language than anyone else in history.

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          Apart from Christopher Lambert in Highlander.

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            The famous French Highlander!

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            Lambert, Lambert, what a prick.

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