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The edits to most popular pages will be most scrutinized. Obama's and Trump's talk pages have the most revisions out of all Wikipedia articles [1] and are secon
by zone411 8y ago
The edits to most popular pages will be most scrutinized. Obama's and Trump's talk pages have the most revisions out of all Wikipedia articles [1] and are second and third most viewed [2], so they are the hardest articles to edit in a way that won't have hundreds of eyes on them right away. The Wikimedia Foundation gets $100 mil in revenue per year and having these two pages look non-neutral would be awful for their fundraising. I think it's just that extremely high interest => usually high quality and polarizing topics have lower quality than average. The consensus was never established on some quite popular controversial articles e.g. [3] and this is heavily criticized by one side of the argument [4].
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Pages_with_the_most_revisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Pag...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multiyear_ranking_of_most_viewed_pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multiyear_ranking_of...
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
[4]https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/9l30zj/how_i_joined_gamergate_a_wikipedia_gatekeeping/ https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/9l30zj/how_...
- burfog 8y agoThat is hardly neutral. Right in the second full paragraph, Trump's page turns nasty. The fourth full paragraph is nasty too. OK, seen enough... Over on Obama's page, every one of the intro paragraphs is nice. I also note the large section on religion that does not even acknowledge that famous interview in which he slipped up and said "my Muslim faith".