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It cannot be saved

Wikipedia and cloned pages dominate the search results for any sufficiently obscure subject. The articles are sloppy and factually suspect [try it yourself]. It's not even a useful starting point when it lacks important citations. But it's all you'll get. Wikipedia is turning the 'serious' side of the internet into an echo chamber. It's knowledge-spam.

What I really want to see, in general, are different opinions on a subject, not Wikipedia's synthesized 'consensus facts'.

Where objective facts are concerned, I want a Git-style distributed knowledgebase with a robust chain of attribution - links to sources, copies of content, and change history.

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