Exploring the Depths of Wikipedia with Annie Rauwerda
Factually! with Adam Conover
Headgum
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
While it feels like the very concept of an accepted collective reality has crumbled around us, Wikipedia has gradually revealed itself to be our accepted arbiter of truth. How did this social project, built on the backs of countless volunteers, come to be the one site on the internet that we all pretty much agree to be “true”? Or mostly true, at least. Annie Rauwerda is a Wikipedia editor known for her incredible social media account Depths of Wikipedia. Today, she joins Adam to give an insider view on how the Wikipedia community tries to navigate our insane modern moment.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I don't know the truth. |
| 0:08.2 | I don't know the way. |
| 0:10.8 | I don't know what to think. |
| 0:13.7 | I don't know what to say. |
| 0:16.6 | Yeah, but that's all right. |
| 0:19.4 | That's okay. |
| 0:22.1 | I don't know anything. |
| 0:27.9 | Hey there, welcome to Factually. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm Adam Conover. |
| 0:30.1 | Thank you so much for joining me on the show again. |
| 0:32.1 | You know, if you're anything like me, you love Wikipedia. |
| 0:35.0 | I use Wikipedia multiple times every day. |
| 0:39.4 | It's on the home screen of my phone. |
| 0:45.3 | It is one of my most trusted sources for finding information about the world around me. Anytime I have a thought about history or science, I have some question. Boom, I open up Wikipedia and I get a |
| 0:49.7 | pretty reasonable and reliable answer all the time. But I do this so frequently that I often |
| 0:56.7 | forget how miraculous of a project Wikipedia is. Because think about this, at a time when |
| 1:02.9 | every other source of information on the internet is getting worse. Google is becoming less |
| 1:07.6 | useful. The web itself has less reliable information than it used to. |
| 1:11.8 | It's more chalk full of AI slop and content farms. At a time when people are turning to AI |
| 1:18.0 | itself rather than to human-created information, Wikipedia is more reliable than ever. |
| 1:24.5 | It's one of the few places on the internet that you can still go and find |
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