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thats a shitty analogy.

Also wikipedia has more technical dept than the worst govmnt project.

Just look at the php backend shit. The parser alone makes people blind. There does not exist a grammar.

You cannot process the content properly, because only their current php thing parses tge wkitext as the author intended, and it consists of 65% quirks and hacks.

The layout/ html rendering is 10y in the past. I can think of a dozen helpful things the html pages could do, but its not possible because of the rottten backend that literally takes minutes to render some articles.

And that with millions of donations. Wikimedia sucks so hard its almost like they purposefully want to wikipedia from evolving.





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