Ha ha ha, this is GREAT! How did you find this? I started the path a couple of years ago. It was a spat between several editors on the University of the People article. That caused me to start digging into the participants. Macario emerged as a clear "winner." His User:Modulato account showed simil...

I want to introduce Wikipedian Giuseppe Macario . He is adept at finding creative uses for Wikipedia. In his 15+ years on the site, he has managed to: Promote himself Counter supposed "fake news" about his online activities Go after the news media for reporting on his political antics Almost find lo...

This editor continues his crusade against supposed diploma mills. If there is something I've learned in my years, it's that those who howl the loudest about often guilty of the very crime they decry. He has a "Doctor of Philosophy in Religion"... Source: https://archive.is/3DYv2 Larger Image: https:...

That global user count graph on isfreenodedeadyet. Ouch.

Wow. The similarities are quite striking.

Modulato is engaging in old tricks. He has a history of setting up websites to attack universities. Some of his past websites include the fake news website called presto.news and another site called evidence-based.review. His recently activities have him again going after a supposed diploma mill in ...

The culture of Wikipedia is fundamentally broken. It's bullies like Chapman who drive away people that actually want to build a encyclopedia. It gets so tedious dealing with loudmouths like him because you have to struggle over every word.

Based off this information, if you start digging you will discover that the person has variously used Wikipedia to both promote himself and scrub the Internet of his records. A particular tactic that he likes to use is AfDs. For example, he recently nixed the articles of La Voce di New York on both ...

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Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:13 pm

Britannica is still in business. Sorry, they want $.

They do offer some content for free.

Another option is World Book Online. It's offered free through a lot of US libraries. Libraries sometimes offer specialized encyclopedias online as well.

Modulato appeared in November 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=Modulato He started making edits to the University of the People page. UoPeople is a young, but legit US university. He was particular set on ensuring that mentions of Israel and the "po box" office were inc...