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jMylestoday at 2:18 AM2 repliesview on HN

One thing I haven't seen brought up throughout the dialogue about Wikipedia and bias:

Since the entire edit history is available, isn't it possible / practical / probably not crazy hard w/ AI help to build a "dissentipedia", where the articles are built as if various edit wars had gone the other way?

I'd certainly read such a thing and compare / contrast it to WikiPedia (particularly when looking for cited primary sources).


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rtkwetoday at 2:48 AM

You'd have to figure out a way to distinguish vanadalism wars from more interpretation oriented edit wars as a starting point.

bilsbietoday at 2:52 AM

I had the same idea. I’d imagine you could automate it if you found the right algorithms.