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Ich freue mich sehr auf diesen Podcast zu einem großangelegten Manipulationsversuch in der deutschsprachigen #Wikipedia (mindestens) zwischen 2005 und 2011, den Rechtsextreme durchführten, bis sie von Wikipedianern enttarnt und gestoppt wurden. Der Podcast erscheint ab dem 16. Januar.

https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/sockenpuppenzoo-angriff-auf-wikipedia/13996869/

Sockenpuppenzoo – Angriff auf Wikipedia

Wikipedia ist die vielleicht wichtigste Webseite unserer Demokratie. Eine Internet-Utopie, wo jede und jeder freien Zugang zu Wissen hat. Und sogar selbst mitschreiben darf. Doch das System ist fragil.
ARD Audiothek
#Wikipedia

Die #Wikipedia ist so etwas wie das kollektive Gedächtnis. Vor Jahren hat eine rechtsextreme Gruppe versucht, dieses Gedächtnis systematisch zu unterwandern.

@Schattleitner und ich wollten wissen: Was waren das für Leute?

Am Donnerstag erscheint unser Podcast „#Sockenpuppenzoo – Angriff auf Wikipedia“: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/sockenpuppenzoo-angriff-auf-wikipedia/13996869/

Sockenpuppenzoo – Angriff auf Wikipedia

Wikipedia ist die vielleicht wichtigste Webseite unserer Demokratie. Eine Internet-Utopie, wo jede und jeder freien Zugang zu Wissen hat. Und sogar selbst mitschreiben darf. Doch das System ist fragil.
ARD Audiothek
#Wikipedia #sockenpuppenzoo @Schattleitner

Claudia Șerbănuță published a study, in English, that reveals how public librarians in #Romania, who edit #Wikipedia in Romanian, perceive the Neutral Point of View.

https://revistatransilvania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/RT-10-2024-7-S%CC%A6erba%CC%86nut%CC%A6a%CC%86.pdf

She conducted informal interviews with 10 editors, 5 were public librarians, and found a tension between the impetus to maintain neutrality and their personal biases. The librarians expressed frustration at balancing personal beliefs with professional responsibilities when offering public services.
#Wikipedia #romania

Right-wing think tank (the same one that published Project 2025) wants to dox Wikipedians who they consider as being antisemitic.

https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/

#HeritageFoundation #Wikipedia

Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors – The Forward

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.
The Forward
#Wikipedia #heritagefoundation

You, @molly0xfff, asked: why does Elon Musk hate Wikipedia so much?

#wikipedia is an independent source of information, and Trump and Musk want to eliminate or discredit every independent source of information. Trump and Musk want to be the only sources of information, although for awhile they will like biased rightwing sources such as Fox News continue to exist. #media
#Wikipedia #media @Molly White

There certainly can be reasonable conversations about whether the Wikimedia Foundation needs to spend as much as it does, and the community has these conversations regularly. Most of the conversations I’ve seen from Musk and allies, however, are not such conversations.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
There certainly can be reasonable conversations about whether the Wikimedia Foundation needs to spend $150–$200 million each year. I suspect few have had as detailed conversations about whether there is a need for such spending and fundraising, or about the tone of fundraising emails and banners, or the ultimate purposes of the spending as have Wikimedia’s very own volunteer editing community, which has a rather peculiar and at times adversarial relationship with the Wikimedia Foundation.495051 But “why does Wikipedia need more than the cost to serve a 50GB file” is not one such reasonable conversation. Nor are some of the other talking points that tend to come up in these kinds of conversations (“why does the Wikimedia Foundation pay employees six-figure salaries when they don’t even pay their editors??”k and “why do they need more money when they already have over $270 million??”52l are another two I see a lot). I personally have shared some of the concerns about the magnitude of spending by the Wikimedia Foundation in the past, and have disagreed with some of its allocations — but I’ll also note that I happily contributed money to the Wikimedia Foundation earlier this year, as I have in the past. k. Editing Wikipedia for pay is an enormously fraught topic, and the damaging incentives introduced by offering payment for edits at an organizational level would likely be ruinous. l. The Wikimedia Foundation tries to keep assets amounting to 12–18 months of expenses in reserve
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Musk has occasionally brought up the question of why the Wikimedia Foundation needs such a large budget. (The Foundation’s annual budget for 2024–2025 is 0.3% of Musk’s proposed pay package, by the way.)

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Spending Some of the ostensible concern about Wikipedia revolves around its spending, though not about the most recent boneheaded claims that Wikipedia is “wasting $50 million” on “DEI” that I’ve already addressed. Amusingly, the question of whether the Wikimedia Foundation’s actual spending is justifiable is arguably Musk’s most reasonable argument, but it’s also one he hasn’t brought up in a long time. “Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone!j So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know …”, wrote Musk in October 2023.45 Setting aside why Elon Musk is the one asking this question — the man who says he personally needs a pay package46 of 300-500× the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual budget for the upcoming year47 — Musk betrays the same complete lack of understanding for how software companies work as when he acquired Twitter and claimed it would work just fine if he fired nearly everyone based on absurd evaluations of their productivity (it hasn’t).48 While the cost to simply host a 50-gigabyte stripped-down copy of Wikipedia, or even the hundreds of terabytes of all content across all projects, might be comparatively low, Musk is apparently ignorant to the massive infrastructure costs for running a project like Wikipedia: maintaining and developing MediaWiki (the software that doesn’t just display Wikipedia articles
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

However, even many of his complaints about supposed widespread bias still boil down to disgruntlement at how he personally is covered on Wikipedia.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
However, even many of his complaints about widespread bias still boil down to disgruntlement at how he personally is covered on the site. Later that year, Musk complained “Wikipedia has a non-trivial left-wing bias”,42 in response to a tweet by Ian Miles Cheong, who observed that there was a deletion discussion underway for the “Twitter Files” article, adding: “These people work hand in hand with the MSM to shape the narrative.” (Anyone can propose a Wikipedia article for deletion, triggering such a discussion. Although deletion discussions normally last seven days, this one was closed early due to overwhelming consensus to keep the article. Neither Cheong nor Musk noted this outcome, and in fact a year later Cheong reposted Musk’s reply to complain, “I still think about this post and how Wikipedia hasn’t improved at all since then. It’s only gotten worse.”43) Only days after his outrage that the controversy he was trying to stoke might not be covered on Wikipedia, Musk was dismayed when a different controversy — with him at the center — was deemed sufficiently noteworthy for a Wikipedia page. “A two day suspension of maybe 7 accounts for doxxing got an actual Wikipedia page!?” he tweeted,44 referring to a Wikipedia article documenting the unexplained banning of ten journalists who had reported on Musk. Twitter and Musk would later try to retroactively justify the ban with a newly-created rule against sharing real-time flight information such as that posted by the ElonJet Tw
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Only after failing to rewrite his own history on Wikipedia did Musk’s criticism expand to broader complaints, such as Wikipedia’s supposed systemic bias.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Only after failing to rewrite his own history on Wikipedia did Musk’s criticism expand to broader complaints, such as Wikipedia’s supposed systemic bias. This crusade gained momentum through several high-profile incidents that became right-wing flashpoints, each fueling his campaign when the site’s coverage didn't match his desired framing. In July 2022, in one of his first tweets complaining about the site beyond where it mentioned him, Musk and others fell for the false statement by Mike Cernovich that “Wikipedia changed the definition of recession to favor the Biden regime, and then locked the page.”39 An article screenshot provided by Cernovich featured text that had remained unchanged since the Trump administration, but that didn’t stop a right-wing firestorm, joined by Musk, where people claimed that Wikipedia had removed the common definition of “recession” as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. (It hadn’t). Tweet by Molly White @molly0xfff: absolutely begging people to learn how to diff wikipedia articles before falling for clickbait here's the "recession" article, on july 14 vs. today. [Image: Diff of two versions of the Wikipedia article on recession, showing minimal wording changes, and that a sentence was added: "Although the definition of a recession between different countries and scholars varies, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's real gross domestic product is commonly used as a practical definition of a recession."]
After Musk replied to a tweet by Pirate Wires owner Mike Solanai to write “Wikipedia is losing its objectivity”, tagging Jimmy Wales,40 Wales pointed Musk to a note posted to the talk page by frustrated Wikipedia editors dealing with the onslaught of complaints he’d helped to stir up: ATTENTION NEW VISITORS TO THIS PAGE TL;DR from Beland: If you are about to hate-post "The definition of a recession is two quarters of declining GDP!": the article already says that, so this would be a waste of time unless you have further suggestions for improving the article. If you are here to complain Wikipedia changed the definition to favor the Biden administration, please don't, because 1.) the article has mentioned both the "two quarter" and NBER definitions for years, and that hasn't changed recently, 2.) after discussion by editors from a diversity of political perspectives, the introduction has actually been changed so it emphasizes the "two quarter" definition a little more, which we expect you will find satisfactorily neutral. But feel free to leave a note if you read the article and still have concerns. “Reading too much Twitter nonsense is making you stupid,” added Wales. “Call me next week if you want a real discussion.”41
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Most of Musk’s ire towards Wikipedia stems from his anger that articles about him do not repeat his own attempts to write his personal and professional history.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Personal grievances While these days Musk frames his crusade against Wikipedia as a principled stand against bias, the timeline of his complaints reveals a more personal motivation. His earliest grievances targeted his own Wikipedia biography, which accurately but much to his chagrin describes him as an “early investor” in Tesla rather than a founder.31h He’s also complained about the Tesla article, which he gripes “glorif[ies]” one of Tesla’s actual founders.32 He has repeatedly claimed his Wikipedia article was written by his “enemies”,3334 and has joined his fans’ complaints about the portion of his Wikipedia page outlining his role in spreading misinformation, bigotry, and conspiracy theories, agreeing with one who suggested “someone paid to have this written”.35 He has boasted so often363738 that has has not tried to “curate” his Wikipedia biography (by which he seems to mean edit it himself, or pay someone to do so on his behalf) that I wonder if he doth protest too much. (As a very highly-watched Wikipedia page, attempts by Musk or his lackeys to insert false or unverifiable portions of the autohagiography he repeats elsewhere would likely meet considerable resistance, as demonstrated by the battles between Musk fanboys — hired or otherwise — and Wikipedia editors that rage in the edit history and talk page.) This grandstanding rings hollow given his track record: when faced with unfavorable coverage elsewhere, Musk has shown no hesitation to exert direct control thro
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

The right’s frequent claims that right-leaning sources and viewpoints are “banned” on Wikipedia are also either misguided or intentionally deceptive.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Source reliability A common complaint from Larry Sanger and others on the right has been Wikipedia's supposed “banning” of right-leaning sources. The reality is more complex: Wikipedia’s source reliability guidelines focus on accuracy and editorial practices, not political alignment. For instance, when the Daily Mail was deprecated as a source in 2017, it wasn’t because of its right-wing stance, but because of documented cases where it published false stories without correction, fabricated quotes, and manipulated images.30 Meanwhile, right-leaning publications with stronger fact-checking practices, like The Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph, remain widely used across Wikipedia. These nuances often get lost in politically-charged discussions about Wikipedia source reliability. Take the case of Fox News: while its opinion programming is generally considered unreliable due to numerous documented falsehoods, its straight news reporting is often deemed acceptable for topics outside of politics and science. Similarly, while the New York Post is considered unreliable for political coverage due to its tabloid approach and history of fabrications, it’s still sometimes used for entertainment coverage.
To reduce repetitive conversations about commonly cited sources, Wikipedia maintains a list of “perennial sources” — publications that are frequently used, and whose reliability is a recurring topic of time-consuming discussions about source usability.g The list segments publications from “generally reliable in its areas of expertise” to “generally unreliable” (use is normally not acceptable) or, more rarely, “deprecated” (use is rarely acceptable). However, source reliability is still taken case-by-case on Wikipedia, depending heavily on not just the publisher and its editorial practices, but also the statements a citation is intended to support, and the specifics of the article being cited. There are articles published in “generally reliable” publications that shouldn’t be used as sources on Wikipedia, and there are articles published in “generally unreliable” or even “deprecated” publications that are reasonably used as sources. This controversial page documenting the general view of reliability for some popular publications is anything but the canonical list of “approved” or “banned” sources many of its critics claim it to be. Whether a source is usable on Wikipedia is a case-by-case decision, as the page itself makes clear: What this page is a list of sources whose suitability for most/general purposes has been discussed repeatedly What this page is not a list of pre-approved sources that can be always used without regard for the ordinary rules of editing a list of ba
There also tends to be a common misconception, or perhaps deception, that only right-leaning sources are labeled unreliable, and only left-leaning sources reliable. While there are more unreliable sources on the list that lean far to the right than to the left, this is a product of the “post-truth” willingness on the right to publish falsehoods that are anywhere from reckless to intentionally fabricated. Organizations like One America News Network, Newsmax, and Project Veritas — all of which have repeatedly published false claims — have made their way onto the list thanks to this predilection. This is not an exclusively right-wing phenomenon — I myself found myself embroiled in long discussions several years ago about whether a very liberal website should be described as “fake news” on Wikipedia (and it is, as of writing) — but it’s far more common on the right. A mere glance at the perennial sources list is enough to disprove the suggestion that it slices cleanly along right/left lines. Left-wing publications like CounterPunch, the Daily Kos, and Occupy Democrats are in the “unreliable” list. Both right-leaning publications like National Review and Washington Examiner and the left-leaning Media Matters for America, Rolling Stone, and ThinkProgress are labeled “partisan sources”. And right-leaning outlets like The Telegraph, The Hill, Reason, and the Wall Street Journal have earned spots in the “generally reliable” section.
Claims that Wikipedia systematically excludes right-wing viewpoints also ignore how differing viewpoints are handled on the project. When covering controversial topics, Wikipedia editors are expected to describe significant viewpoints in proportion to their prominence in reliable sources — even when those viewpoints are outside the mainstream. For example, Wikipedia's article on climate change includes skeptical positions, but cites them primarily through scientific publications and other reliable coverage rather than through fringe publications or those with poor reputations for fact-checking and scientific rigor. Similarly, articles about electoral fraud claims cite Trump supporters’ perspectives, but through court filings and reliable reporting rather than through sources that have repeatedly published debunked claims. Scratch the surface, and complaints that Wikipedia does not describe these viewpoints at all are often revealed to be complaints that Wikipedia does not adopt these viewpoints as true, or treat widely debunked hypotheses with similar weight as broad scientific consensus.
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Attacks on press freedom and free expression have become commonplace, even among the right’s self-described free speech champions. But neither Trump, Musk, nor anyone on the right can control Wikipedia as they wish.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Control The rise of the MAGA right in the United States has sparked some startling changes in attitudes towards press freedom and freedom of expression. Although many on the right, including Musk,1819 have styled themselves as valiant defenders of free speech, their actions expose them as opposite: only willing to defend speech they find agreeable, while hostile towards and desperate to clamp down on criticism or opposing views. Musk, for example, has directed that “cisgender” be blocklisted on Twitter as a “slur”, and posts by most accounts that contain the word are automatically hidden from view (unlike posts containing the long list of slurs he has apparently deemed acceptable).20 He has brought SLAPP lawsuits against critics, including one dismissed by a federal judge as clearly intended to “punish [the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate] for CCDH publications that criticized X Corp. [Twitter] — and perhaps in order to dissuade others who might wish to engage in such criticism.”21 He spent $44 billion to acquire Twitter, ostensibly over concerns that conservative voices were being unfairly silenced, but really so that he could be the one to dictate which speech was and was not allowed on the platform. Similar attacks on speech are becoming only more common throughout the American right, with president-elect Trump’s longstanding hostility to the media escalating at a rapid clip. In recent months, Trump has suggested he wouldn’t mind if reporters were shot,
But neither Trump, Musk, nor anyone on the right can control Wikipedia as they wish. A 2022 tweet from a New York Post reporter, musing about how much Musk would have to spend to buy Wikipedia, was met with a clear rebuke from Jimmy Wales: “Not for sale.”28 The site later echoed the sentiment in its fundraising appeals, nodding at the idea that Musk should just “buy Wikipedia” like he did with Twitter when it reassured potential donors that “there is no danger that someone will buy Wikipedia and turn it into their personal playground.” Attempts to coerce changes to Wikipedia’s content via the legal system would likely fall flatter than lawsuits Musk and his ilk have threatened or filed against critics, because the Wikimedia Foundation has proven itself remarkably willing to fight back against formidable adversaries. In 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation denied Turkey’s attempts to force the site to alter information about the Turkish government’s support for terrorist organizations. When Turkey blocked Wikipedia access in response, the Foundation took the case to the Turkish supreme court, and access was restored in January 2020 after the court ruled the ban violated human rights to freedom of expression. The Foundation has likewise resisted threats from the United States, refusing to submit to legal threats from the FBI in 2010 after they demanded Wikipedia stop using an image of the FBI seal,29 and in 2015 filing suit against the NSA over its upstream mass surveillance program
This isn't to say Wikipedia is impervious to influence. While obvious vandalism and heavy-handed manipulation attempts typically fail quickly, more subtle influence campaigns can succeed, at least for a time, by working within Wikipedia's rules and social dynamics. Coordinated editing campaigns have sometimes pushed biased content, particularly in areas of the project that attract less attention. Governments have been accused of attempting to manipulate Wikipedia to favor their interests or spread propaganda, while paid editing firms have manipulated articles about corporations and politicians. But Wikipedia's transparency makes manipulation visible and correctable: every edit is publicly logged, discussed, and reversible. And a decree by a government or billionaire does not ultimately determine what content stays or goes. While some news outlets and other entities have proven willing to back down in the face of threats and demands from powerful figures (or has lacked the resources to do anything but), Wikipedia has not. This resilience against control helps explain why figures like Musk find Wikipedia so infuriating. They can buy platforms, threaten lawsuits, or pressure advertisers, but they cannot simply purchase or coerce control over Wikipedia.
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Musk’s recent Twitter rampage reveals a man with a grudge against Wikipedia, looking for anything to support his position, regardless of whether it’s true. But why have Musk and others on the right chosen Wikipedia as a favorite punching bag?

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Then, Musk amplified an erroneous and months-outdated claim that Bill Clinton had been deleting information about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from Wikipedia.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Then, in the early hours of December 31, Musk reposted a video from a self-described “Conspiracy Realist/Coincidence analyser” account, “@BGatesIsaPsycho”, which had in turn taken the video from antisemitic conspiracy theoristc and self-described “OSINT journalis[t] exposing globalism” Ian Carroll. “No more donations to Wikipedia until they start being truthful”, Musk added, atop a video where Carroll claimed that “someone deleted all of Bill Clinton’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein from Wikipedia”, suggesting that Clinton himself was behind the edits. This, again, was a complete misrepresentation: the text was moved, not deleted, and not likely by Bill Clinton.d If Carroll had cared to look at the public article editing history, he would have seen that the extremely long biographical article on Clinton was in fact split678 — as overlong articles often are9 — into separate subtopic articles, “Bill Clinton sexual assault and misconduct allegations” and “Post-presidency of Bill Clinton”, both of which are linked from the primary page. The Epstein-related section was restored to the primary Clinton article by a different editor three weeks later,10 shortly after Carroll published his video but months before Musk reshared it.
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

Recent tweets by Elon Musk, Libs of Tiktok, Mario Nawfal, and others have claimed that Wikipedia is spending “$50 million for DEI”, misrepresenting Wikipedia’s actual budget and financial statements to claim Wikipedia is now “Wokepedia”.

#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
First was Chaya Raichik, also known as “Libs of TikTok,” who on December 23 screenshotted a pie chart of budget categories from the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023–2024 annual plan.1 Apparently not bothering to read past the labels, Raichik dashed off a tweet condemning the Foundation for spending $50 million on “diversity, equity, and inclusion”,a the right’s latest bogeyman, and urging her own substantial follower base to “Stop donating to Wokepedia”.2b Musk agreed, amplifying her post with the comment: “Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority.”3 [Image: Pie chart from Wikimedia’s annual plan, breaking down the budget by goal categories: Infrastructure, Equity, Safety & Inclusion, Effectiveness.] That the “safety & inclusion” link is not purple in this screenshot taken from Raichik’s tweet suggests she didn’t even bother to visit the page to determine what that category encompasses. a. “DEI” has been a recent addition to “CRT”, “wokeness”, and other dogwhistles used by conservatives and those further to the right to gesture at, and broadly oppose, racial and gender equality.5455 b. Rightwingers trying to come up with a slur against Wikipedia should really have considered something that doesn’t so closely overlap with Wookieepedia, a near-homograph that predates the “Wokepedia” coinage by twenty years, which makes me do a double take every time. For those who aren’t familiar,
Two days later, Musk retweeted Mario Nawfal, who had ripped off Raichik’s same post to produce his own, with the bold and all-caps headline “Wikipedia blows $50M on wokeness”. Nawfal added, “That’s $50 million for DEI instead of, you know, improving the actual site. … Sure, inclusion is nice, but maybe they could use some of that money to ensure they’re a reliable source of information first? Just a thought.”4 What Nawfal, Raichik, and Musk either failed to understand or deliberately misrepresented was that these budget categories they’ve dismissed as “DEI” directly support Wikipedia’s reliability. The funding goes to programs to expand coverage of underrepresented topics, recruit editors with expertise in neglected subject areas, develop tools to identify and counter coordinated disinformation campaigns, improve article and source reliability, and protect the project and its editors from attempts to censor or restrict access to Wikipedia content. Far from detracting from Wikipedia’s mission, these programs work to directly address the types of concerns Musk and others raise.5
#Wikipedia #elonmusk #uspol #uspolitics

"The authors had already used this data in some publications which we covered here back in 2013 ("What drives people to contribute to Wikipedia? Experiment suggests reciprocity and social image motivations"). In the new paper, they also look these 730 editors' contributions over the period from 2011 to 2020, specifically

- Quantity of contributions (using both edit counts and number of bytes added)
- Quality of contributions, measured using content persistence (i.e. whether or not other editors later removed the contributed content)
- "Interpersonal cooperation", measured by how likely editors are to delete (i.e., “revert”) the contributions of others without providing an explanation [...] Wikipedia contributors typically consider non justified reverts as highly uncooperative and harmful to the project.

Among other results, the authors

uncovered a surprising negative correlation between our measures of contribution quantity and quality at the editor level. Namely, the social signalers in our data, if they contribute significantly more content to Wikipedia, also contribute lower quality material on average. In practice, this means that, as vetted by their peers, social signalers contribute content that persists about 38% less revisions on average"

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2024/December

#Wikipedia #DigitalCommons #OnlineCollaboration
#Wikipedia #digitalcommons #onlinecollaboration

Given all of the publicity today, I thought I'd better update my profile to include that I'm a Wikipedia administrator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anne_Delong

#wikipedia
#Wikipedia

I just donated to #wikipedia, because #SpaceKaren doesn't want me to.
Elon Musk's post on Xitter: "Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority"
#Wikipedia #SpaceKaren

Wikipedia is a problem for Musk/Trump. Not, as Musk says, because it's "woke." Because it's one of our last reliable tethers to a consensus reality. Therefore, an antidote to disinformation.

It's not making anyone money. It's not enshittified. Of course it's not perfect—it's an endeavor of imperfect cooperating humans. But it needs protection and support.

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742

#wikipedia

Elon Musk Takes Aim at Wikipedia

The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
James Bickerton (Newsweek)
#Wikipedia

More #screenshots of text
#israel
#palestine
#spqr
#titus
Note that #wikipedia seems to be #censoring the #khazak origins of #AskenaziJews
Titus was the emperor during the destruction of the #secondtemple in #jerusalem



#Wikipedia #israel #palestine #Jerusalem #screenshots #titus #spqr #censoring #khazak #askenazijews #secondtemple

Got invited to vote in the EN #wikipedia Arbitration Committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2024/Candidates

I don't know any of the candidates. Anyone to vote for, avoid? (You can private message ofc)
#Wikipedia

😁"#Wikipedia Labels #Zionists spooks, the #ADL, ‘Unreliable’😎

"Wikipedia, the digital billboard of #CIA-approved narratives, decided that the ADL is no longer a reliable source on issues like #antisemitism and the Israeli-#Palestinians conflict. When the Empire’s own mouthpieces begin eating their own, you know the gears of the #propaganda machine are grinding against reality."

More https://t.me/two_majors/36429 @israel @palestine@a.aup.pe
#Wikipedia #antisemitism #propaganda #CIA #palestinians #zionists #adl @israel

Wow. i just listened to an interview with Norman Finkelstein and wanted to read more about his career so turned to the #Wikipedia page about him. Quite a Wikipedia page!

So interesting about truth claims - in scholarship in general as well as about the Holocaust specifically - in tenure politics, and of course Wikipedia itself. The page reads like a battleground, so much being fought out right here. #Gaza 1/2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein

1953- American political scientist, historian, writer, university teacher, and human rights activist

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#Wikipedia #gaza

The #wikipedia article "Israeli destruction of the Gaza Strip healthcare system" on the systematic destruction of Gaza's healthcare system just got deleted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_destruction_of_the_Gaza_Strip_healthcare_system

#Gaza
#Wikipedia #gaza

#Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how #Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world’s largest online encyclopaedia.

“The matter remains contested, but there’s a metric truckload of scholarly sources linked in this discussion that show a clear predominance of academics who say that it is.”

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241108-its-not-close-israel-committing-genocide-concludes-wikipedia-ending-editorial-debate/
#Wikipedia #israel

This made me a bit emotional. The tide, it seems, is finally turning.

It's about god-damn time! It only took a year of #genocide

#MiddleEastMonitor

#Wikipedia has officially added “Gaza genocide” to its “List of Genocides” page, marking a major shift in how Israel’s aggression on the besieged enclave is being documented on the world’s largest online encyclopaedia.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241108-its-not-close-israel-committing-genocide-concludes-wikipedia-ending-editorial-debate/

#GazaGenocide #OccupiedPalestine #Palestine
#Wikipedia #genocide #palestine #gazagenocide #occupiedpalestine #middleeastmonitor

"Wikipedia has decided to rename the page, initially titled ‘#Genocide allegations in the 2023 Israeli assault on #Gaza’ to simply ‘#GazaGenocide’.

"Drawing on expert opinions, #Wikipedia editors, determined there was enough evidence from scholars and human rights organizations, like Amnesty International, to substantiate the term 'genocide' in the page title."

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/after-months-of-debate-wikipedia-describes-israels-war-on-gaza-as-genocide/ @palestine #Palestinians #Palestine @israel

After Months of Debate - Wikipedia Describes Israel's War on Gaza as 'Genocide' - Palestine Chronicle

 Wikipedia has decided to rename the page -  initially titled ‘Genocide allegations in the 2023 Israeli assault on Gaza’ to ‘Gaza Genocide’.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)
#Wikipedia #genocide #palestine #gaza #palestinians #gazagenocide @palestine @israel

#Wikipedia in English now contains an entry about the #genocide in #Gaza, and it's list of genocides now contains it, too.

That was long overdue, and sooner or later, there will be more who speak out this truth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides

Wikimedia list article

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#Wikipedia #genocide #gaza

Die englischsprachige #Wikipedia enthält jetzt einen Artikel über den #Genozid in #Gaza, und hat diesen #Völkermord auch in ihre entsprechende Liste aufgenommen.

Es wurde Zeit, und über kurz oder lang werden immer mehr diese Wahrheit auch aussprechen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides

Wikimedia list article

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#Wikipedia #gaza #genozid #volkermord

🌈 Are you passionate about the history and representation of the #LGBTQ+ community?

Join us in enriching LGBTQ+ documentation across #Wikimedia projects such as #Wikipedia, #Wikidata, #WikimediaCommons, #Wikisource during the third edition of LGBTQ+ History Month during November!

🏳️‍🌈 Info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Pride/History_month/2024

Wiki Loves Pride/History month/2024 - Meta

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#lgbtq #Wikipedia #wikidata #wikimedia #wikimediacommons #Wikisource

If anyone has good secondary sources for #Tekmîl, let me know. I'd be up for writing a #wikipedia article on it.
#Wikipedia #tekmil

I am looking for a repository of simple, Lua-free, #MediaWiki templates.

Any got a tip for me?

#Wikipedia
#Wikipedia #mediawiki

New #wikipedia page, "The Goose and the Common"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_and_the_Common

"The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back "

Feedback/edits welcome

#commons #poem #enclosure
#Wikipedia #commons #poem #enclosure

Not being able to edit #wikipedia when using a #vpn is irritating for me, and likely a real barrier for others.

Where do I put my vote to drop it, at least for confirmed editors?
#Wikipedia #vpn

I want to get a bunch of #Wikipedia stickers - both earnest and edgy - and stick em everywhere.

Tips anyone?
#Wikipedia

Back on the train of #wikipedia MPs - George Alfred Muskett, who at first glance was an obscure one-term MP who never did anything, and on further investigation, uh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Muskett

* married heiress, thrown in jail (she was a ward of court), reached settlement, she Mysteriously Died one year later
* spent all her fortune on building a business empire including a bank
* bank probably bribed enough voters to make him an MP
* left Parliament, died suddenly, bank collapsed
#Wikipedia

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