2021-02-27
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            News are the changelog of wikipedia.

Just came to me that this phrase concentrates my annoyance with
the normal news feed. It's a bit over the top but not much.
Basically, wikipedia is focused on understanding an event and
writing a history of it. The news just gives me the latest
development. I don't have time to be on top of every subject
so most stuff on any news feed is waste of my time, and then
the ones I would like to know more about I will have to go to
wikipedia for. Why is it that journalists are paid but wikipedia
is built by volunteers? Journalists should get into building
their own wikipedias and stop treating the individual snippet
of information as the end product.

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