i discovered the author of this article (https://www.nature.com/news/how-facebook-fake-news-and-friends-are-warping-your-memory-1.21596) contributing heavily to the Wikipedia article on the Spanish Flu pandemic, working with a team of single-purpose accounts to insert material from her book hypothes...

an interesting group indeed - on one page they list the execrable Bellingcat as a good resource on "Russian propaganda," while on another they list it among organizations funded by the NED, acknowledging it is American propaganda (& the slimiest underhanded sort at that for refusing to declare its b...

that's the one, thanks

perhaps this is the wrong forum, but can someone please post a link to the tool that allows one to compare edits between two Wikipedia users? i had all but discovered two notorious ideologically-motivated editors are the same person, & then my computer crashed & i lost all my browser tabs. the tool ...

i have spoken to a few people who claim they were able to get Wikipedia to delete articles about them - one around 2010, the other about 2005. both could be considered "fringe"-ish political characters, especially given Wikipedia's ever-widening definition of "fringe," so it is t...

BLP violation...i'm going to tell all the trilobites i know to sue ( seriously though, huge? most trilobites are pretty manageable in size. not all of them of course...m ) (pardon the inconsequential post, apparently i need to make a lot of these to get privileges to reply to PMs on this forum. this...

i notice Philip Cross is not only hyperactive once more, but going after Ron Unz, who has given large sums of money to Wikipedia in the past. is he cruising for a bruising, or has some kind of decision been made to throw Unz to the wolves? perhaps he hasn't kept up his tithing? also, how is Cross no...

A circular link to this thread via Helen of desTroy. A follow-up piece and another . Footnotes inside... she's done a lot of work. The first essay is general and gets some things wrong. (she shouldn't say Wikimedia owns WikiTribune to pick one example... or radicalize the things I've written into a...