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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.
by 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[flagged]
- 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 agoCompletely 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[flagged]