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by Panzer04 338 days ago
Single point of failure?

Yeah u can download the entirety of Wikipedia if you want to. What's the single point of failure?
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fauigerzigerk 338 days ago
Not in a technical sense. What I mean is that Wikipedia is very widely used as an authoritative source of objective truth. Manipulating this single source regarding some subject would have an outsize influence on what is considered to be true.
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