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Having contributed to the Danish Wikipedia, I was astounded by the arrogance and the accusations by the other contributors/mods. That was what made me not contr
by poxycat 5y ago
Having contributed to the Danish Wikipedia, I was astounded by the arrogance and the accusations by the other contributors/mods.
That was what made me not contribute anymore.
- darig 5y agoHistory is written by the most pompous. Ignore history. Buy guns.
- inglor_cz 5y agoIt is nothing short of astounding how small amounts of power corrupt otherwise intelligent people. Sometimes I despair at the state of democratic politics, but looking at the edit wars of Wikipedia, it could have been worse. So much pettiness for nothing.
- Barrin92 5y ago>So much pettiness for nothing. well as the saying goes, 'the fights are so fierce because the stakes are so low', or slightly more technically 'In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake'. Wikipedia is like a breeding ground for Girardian terror with people who tend to be very homogenous all competing for very similar things which often are only relevant because someone else wants to exercise control over them. Only place worse might be reddit moderation.
- bawolff 5y agoI would definitely take wikipedia politics over american politics. Wikipedia has its problems, but nobody there is violently storming the whitehouse.
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- staysafeanon 5y agoWikipedia politics IS American politics. You don't need to look far to see American far-leftism and American neo-Marxists openly editing pages to help push narratives.