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And this over an article that gets on average 200 pageviews a day... I run my own wiki project and this sorta political bike-shedding would get you labeled as a

by p3rls 2y ago

And this over an article that gets on average 200 pageviews a day... I run my own wiki project and this sorta political bike-shedding would get you labeled as a troublemaker and then thrown out, though I envy how wikipedia can survive with this kinda democratization where the inmates are running the asylum and it mostly performs flawlessly. I step away for a day and my inmates have regressed to speaking in wingdings and trying to eat the moderators.

mostcallmeyt 2y ago
A lot of critical coverages against Wikipedia have indeed appeared lately. https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114599942/wikipedia-recession-edits https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114599942/wikipedia-recessio... https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4703442 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4703442 https://dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-government-agents-infiltrate-wikipedia-sentence-independent-wikipedia-administrators-to-prison/ https://dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-government-agents-infiltra... https://forward.com/opinion/550600/wikipedia-holocaust-disinformation/ https://forward.com/opinion/550600/wikipedia-holocaust-disin... https://slate.com/technology/2023/12/wikipedia-road-highway-editors-wiki-railfans-roadgeeks.html https://slate.com/technology/2023/12/wikipedia-road-highway-... https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401124365 https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401124365 https://theconversation.com/wikipedias-volunteer-editors-are-fleeing-online-abuse-heres-what-that-could-mean-for-the-internet-and-you-218517 https://theconversation.com/wikipedias-volunteer-editors-are... https://harpers.org/archive/2023/12/the-hofmann-wobble-wikipedia-and-the-problem-of-historical-memory/ https://harpers.org/archive/2023/12/the-hofmann-wobble-wikip... https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wik... Aaron Bandler of Jewish Journal also wrote many articles criticizing Wikipedia's antisemitic problems in the wake of October 7 attacks too. Not to mention "The Wikipedia Flood" blog which is posting more reports on Wikipedia.
- red016 2y ago
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- tivert 2y ago
  > A lot of critical coverages against Wikipedia have indeed appeared lately. Which is good, because irrespective of any particular political controversy, Wikipedia has way more goodwill than it deserves. People should look at it way, way more critically, and stop with the hagiographic praise.
  - mostcallmeyt 2y ago
    Completely agree. In the long term though it's not surprising if the US Congress eventually set up a special committee to open investigations against Wikipedia and possibly other websites, because as can be seen below, some Wikipedia admins have been implicated in serial harassments against women and even actual employees of the USG. https://www.reddit.com/r/justwikipediathings/wiki/index https://www.reddit.com/r/justwikipediathings/wiki/index
- weatherlite 2y ago
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by p3rls 2y ago

mostcallmeyt 2y ago

A lot of critical coverages against Wikipedia have indeed appeared lately. https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114599942/wikipedia-recession-edits https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114599942/wikipedia-recessio... https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4703442 https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4703442 https://dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-government-agents-infiltrate-wikipedia-sentence-independent-wikipedia-administrators-to-prison/ https://dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-government-agents-infiltra... https://forward.com/opinion/550600/wikipedia-holocaust-disinformation/ https://forward.com/opinion/550600/wikipedia-holocaust-disin... https://slate.com/technology/2023/12/wikipedia-road-highway-editors-wiki-railfans-roadgeeks.html https://slate.com/technology/2023/12/wikipedia-road-highway-... https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401124365 https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401124365 https://theconversation.com/wikipedias-volunteer-editors-are-fleeing-online-abuse-heres-what-that-could-mean-for-the-internet-and-you-218517 https://theconversation.com/wikipedias-volunteer-editors-are... https://harpers.org/archive/2023/12/the-hofmann-wobble-wikipedia-and-the-problem-of-historical-memory/ https://harpers.org/archive/2023/12/the-hofmann-wobble-wikip... https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wik... Aaron Bandler of Jewish Journal also wrote many articles criticizing Wikipedia's antisemitic problems in the wake of October 7 attacks too. Not to mention "The Wikipedia Flood" blog which is posting more reports on Wikipedia.

red016 2y ago
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tivert 2y ago
> A lot of critical coverages against Wikipedia have indeed appeared lately. Which is good, because irrespective of any particular political controversy, Wikipedia has way more goodwill than it deserves. People should look at it way, way more critically, and stop with the hagiographic praise.
- mostcallmeyt 2y ago
  Completely agree. In the long term though it's not surprising if the US Congress eventually set up a special committee to open investigations against Wikipedia and possibly other websites, because as can be seen below, some Wikipedia admins have been implicated in serial harassments against women and even actual employees of the USG. https://www.reddit.com/r/justwikipediathings/wiki/index https://www.reddit.com/r/justwikipediathings/wiki/index
weatherlite 2y ago
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