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The greater the agenda, the less you can rely on the data. But the agenda is not always obvious. I edited a technical subject [some 10+ years ago], and within
by sam_goody 8y ago
The greater the agenda, the less you can rely on the data. But the agenda is not always obvious.
I edited a technical subject [some 10+ years ago], and within minutes(!!) it had been changed again to a variant of what was originally there, I presume by a bot. Some further research taught me that the technical issue was actually a sensitive one for various new age groups. Since there is no way I could ever hope to manually compete with a team of scripted adversaries, I gave up.
Taught me something about Wikipedia.
Note: I have other edits that have been up for years, so not at all absolute.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 8y ago>Some further research taught me that the technical issue was actually a sensitive one for various new age groups. Please elaborate!
- gbear605 8y agoThere’s a decent chance it wasn’t a bot. I have about a hundred pages on my Wikipedia watch list, and I get emails everytime a change is made to them. I check each one for whether it is a good change or not. An unfortunately high percentage are not (and by not good change, I mean unambiguous things like typing random gibberish).
- Diederich 8y agoAre you comfortable saying what the technical subject was?