I am a self proclaimed wiki-phile, I always donated when I could. It was kind of like going to the library without the fresh book smell.
People who are inconvenienced by facts and reality are trying to start a war against them
If you’re seeing hate at wikipedia it is manufactured by Elon Musk.
Someone Luigi this fuck already.
Agreed, but watch out, Lemmy.World has some super shitty bootlicking mods going around deleting any comment that insinuate Musk should have anything less than a perfectly healthy long life. Thinking of switching instances because this one is failing lol.
Elon Musk and his cult followers are getting pissy with and declaring war on Wikipedia because they think it’s biased against them. So basically, Wikipedia is being dragged into this right wing culture war.
It’s not really a right wing culture war at this point, they’re trying to destroy any source of information not controlled by the rich fascists who’ve seized control of the state.
CIA has their own wikipedia editors. As do most large companies & rich people. Wikipedia is not exactly neutral, but for melon it’s not biased enough.
Oh man, its 2008 again. Can’t wait for them to rediscover Conservapedia and Voat.
Nothing changed at Wikipedia but FOX told me it was WOKE!
-People who Do Their Own Research!
Elon started badmouthing them. I don’t know specifically why, but it was he.
Here you go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia
This has been escalating for like two decades.
Which “bunch of people”? Question is way too vague to answer meaningfully, there are many people who have one reason or another to hate Wikipedia.
For a very long time now, they’ve been great about the more technical topics. But for a lot of the more political articles, they’ve been questionable. Bad sources, saying that sources say things that the sources don’t actually say, leaving out important information, framing things in odd ways. Bunch of dumb drama and edit wars. Heck, even one of the founders left over it.
That, and they solicite donations without telling people where that money is going. I don’t mind keeping the servers running or paying volunteers, but why did they give 5 million to “anonymous”?
Wiki has been cooped by the US regime but that’s gonna happen…
What you are talking about is President Musk trying to destroy it as a viable information source that at least pretends to have standards. He wants wiki to be similar to fox news.
Hold the line!
When and how did Elon take over Wikipedia?
That’s not what my comment said…
What did you mean it to say? Who’s taken over Wikipedia?
The US regime prior to President musk already cucked wikipedia as a US entity etc
Now President Musk wants to destroy it.
Two separate events.
What are you talking? US entity, us regime?
Wikipedia is captured by people who value procedure more than fact, they will revert, delete, lock pages if you did something not the way this specific person with a lot of time and clout likes.
There are also examples of unpunished retaliation against people that tried to do something about it.
Citation needed
I don’t doubt there are examples of volunteers reverting changes made by other volunteers. Saying it’s captured is ridiculous. Wikipedia is an immense source of shared value. I’d need much more specific evidence before dismissing it, and frankly I don’t expect anyone has such evidence.
There is nothing ridiculous about it, they even have specific terms for countless abuses by “senior editors”, e.g. wikilawyer, content authoritharian you can look it up. Their policy was/is “Verifiability, not truth”. As for evidence, there is plenty:
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Well, you were going to dismiss whatever I will link you, so there were no point in providing links
Well, you were going to dismiss whatever I will link you, so there were no point in providing links
I’ve got proof that raw milk is much healthier than milk that’s been heated for just a little bit. But, sigh, unfortunately you won’t believe any article I link you. Your mind is darkened and cannot perceive my ideas. A shame.
For real though, why on god’s green earth would you link the philip roth complaint? Encyclopedias are not a primary source for anything, you don’t publish new information to them.
Sources?
Elon Musk
