Because if they acknowledged that marketing agencies, political zealots, and government operatives from various countries have infiltrated Wikipedia it would je

Because if they acknowledged that marketing agencies, political zealots, and government operatives from various countries have infiltrated Wikipedia it would jeopardize the reputation of the project. They focus on there being few female editors or editors from Africa, rather than that every other biographical article about a living person is written by a marketing agency employee. Naivety as coping mechanism perhaps. The "honest" editors built the site for free, while many others are subverting it for their own gain.