Wikipedia

TO: Those who value information so much they place it in public trust.

CC: All of Wikipedia (most likely these are all those in the TO.)

Subject: Unexplainable and unlikely loss of knowledge on Wikipedia

I've been reading certain articles many times over for reasons of my own.  Whether those who put their time and effort into Wikipedia articles are consciously aware of it, I sometimes find unconscious hints that provide more insight.

That's not the point of this post blog post..

Wikipedia appears to be losing information for some of the topics I read about.  It's occurring by simple and seemingly innocent things like a topic being given a new "synonym".

My example for you:  Stochastic noise/stochastic resonance

Some of those (or related) articles now reference:  Deterministic noise

One name was replaced with the other.  The knowledge which isn't represented as well as before would be the difference is meaning or perceived meaning between "Stochastic" and "Deterministic".  I got over being confused by the name change fairly quickly - for the most part.  But my mind is still reshuffling things around (however that works) to fix what I knew before that isn't quire right now.

There may or may not be other examples and they align on specific topics or types of topics.

Stopping the loss of information as simple as a name is incalculable.

Good to go, no grandstanding,

- no.one.in.particular