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• I absolutely love the dinner party analogy! Barbara ✐  ✉ 17:50, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
• "For content that is not politically charged or controversial, Wikipedia has proven to be as good as, if not better than, some its peers." -- I'd argue that this stands even for "politically charged or controversial" content. Of course, scientists have political biases too :) Daß Wölf 21:43, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
  • Absolutely --S Philbrick(Talk) 16:11, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
    • All of my teachers would emphasize the point of "who's funding this research?" I might understand the general distaste towards Wikipedia if it was funded by advertisements, or got millions of dollars from a few select corporations... but that's *not* what Wikipedia is! So yeah, I can see why in general Wikipedia can be as good as, if not better than, some of its peers. Clovermoss (talk) 22:59, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
• Thanks for introducing the concept of stigmergy to me. I find it to be a very good way of understanding what I do on Wikipedia.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  04:11, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
  • You already know then, that word will most certainly be in the next crossword puzzle. Barbara ✐  ✉ 23:33, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
    • My two-year-old granddaughter used it in conversation just yesterday. I wasn't surprised.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  23:44, 19 October 2018 (UTC)