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> They take so much money yet use none to acfually police wikipedia. https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct https://foundation.

• metalliqaz 2y ago
  how does that address what the parent comment said?
  • hk__2 2y ago
    The Foundation has made lots of efforts in the past years to make this universal code of conduct and it’s (almost?) finally here.
• patmorgan23 2y ago
  Yes, Wikipedia has rules. But how many paid wikimedia employees are involved in the governance/moderation of the platform? How many times have admins and established editors bullied or banned new editors needlessly just so their own work can stay up?
  • hk__2 2y ago
    > But how many paid wikimedia employees are involved in the governance/moderation of the platform? Hopefully none, because each instance should govern/moderate itself.
    • rvba 2y ago
      How is the Scots wiki policing itself? For those who dont know one person made thousands of articles with some bot, that are poor translations from English. > the project contained an unusually high number of articles written in poor-quality Scots. They were written by a single prolific contributor, who was an American teenager. These articles consisted of mostly English instead of Scots vocabulary and grammar. It is claimed that the editor apparently used an online English–Scots dictionary to translate parts of English Wikipedia articles word-to-word in disregard of its grammar. > Over 23,000 articles, approximately a third of the entire Scots Wikipedia at that time, were created by the editor. These articles have been described as "English written in a Scottish accent," with gibberish and nonsensical words and spellings not present in any Scots dialect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia