• honeyontoast@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Forgive me if I’m ignorant of something, but how would it be different from Wikipedia? Crowd-sourced information, cited and reviewed by peers? It has flaws, but no more than a Lemmy community would have.

    Interestingly the Merovingian dynasty wiki page does have info on coinage but doesn’t mention the barter economy you describe so you might be able to contribute there if you’ve got the sources to back it up.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, the coin example was a terrible one, because both r/AskHistorians and wikipedia answer those kinds of questions really well. Just take the basic concept and extend it to, well, anything, especially fairly specific questions that wikipedia wouldn’t answer. Wikipedia can’t have everything, and other sources will become rarer and rarer.