You might if some other program checks whether that file exists and behaves differently depending on that.
schnurrito
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Platforms actually have one significant advantage over personal websites, blogs, disconnected forums: You only have to go to one website (open one app) in order to read everything you find interesting. You don't have to remember to go to 5 different forums and read 15 different blogs.
Of course the disadvantage is that they are a lot easier to censor because they're a single point of failure.
ActivityPub should in theory be the best of both worlds, but I am not too optimistic; people, organizations, governments wanting to censor people they don't like will always find a way. :(
I think enwiki tends to use Wikidata relatively sparingly.
This problem was solved in like 2012 or 2013 with the introduction of Wikidata, but not all language editions have decided to use that.
Does anyone still use pidgin in 2024 even?
That is pretty much what I said. I was irritated by your wording "the actual 365.2425", which is just another approximation of the "actual" solar year.
I don't think that is what Wikipedia says. Whatever one's thoughts on Wikipedia, I'm pretty sure it is getting this right.
365.25 is what you get if you have leap years every four years with no exceptions. This is what was done in the Julian calendar which was used in the Christian world some centuries ago (how long exactly depends on what part of the Christian world).
365.2425 is the average year length in the Gregorian calendar which we use (where leap years are 1592, 1596, 1600, 1604, 1608, ... 1692, 1696, 1704, 1708, ..., 1792, 1796, 1704, 1708, ..., 1892, 1896, 1904, 1908, ... 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, ..., 2092, 2096, 2104, 2108, ...).
The actual average solar year is better approximated by the latter than the former, but it is still slightly off.
And of course downvote so that fewer users see it
and that is how it should be and which was also my philosophy when I held positions of authority in online communities (I don't hold any anymore because I no longer have time to spend as much time online as I used to)
That requires quite a bit of idealism and self-reflection which is not a common trait in humans.
It appears I am getting bored with the entire Internet.
When we had web forums with thread bumping, I got an endless stream of interesting and entertaining things to react to despite there being relatively few users.