Most old-timers know about "Essjay," who was the Big Boss of Wikipedia when Jimbo moved to the United Kingdom. Jimbo was essentially "hands-off" and let Essjay take complete control of the highest administrative functions. This lasted for years. No one interfered with Essjay. For the benefit of thos...

The Wiki playpen could certainly use some adult supervision. However, I think that most of these Wiki-children are useful idiots for the "Powers that Be", and these powers like it that way. https://www.rt.com/news/580735-cia-fbi-edits-wikipedia/ It is demoralizing for better-informed adults to swim ...

https://www.rt.com/news/581379-hunter-b ... onsulting/

16 August 2023 -- Hunter Biden paid consulting firm to sanitize his Wikipedia bio; he wanted lines about his work with Burisma and a dodgy financier removed

Here is the Larry Sanger interview by Glenn Greenwald that Russia Today mentioned:
https://scheerpost.com/2023/08/03/glenn ... yclopedia/

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/25/the-us-press-spooks-the-church-committee/ (an article by Patrick Lawrence) "Wikipedia, the alternative encyclopedia with its own objectionable relations with intelligence, as we speak carries this sentence in its entry on the Cold War programs: 'By the time the ...

Wikipedia is becoming less important as chatbots are becoming more important. Even Ralph Nader is worried about our future, as chatbots get smarter and seem unstoppable:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/20 ... re-coming/

https://www.rt.com/russia/574279-wikipe ... kraine-us/

6 Apr, 2023 10:02

Former editor explains Wikipedia's anti-Russia bias:
Ex-admin says that the online encyclopedia has become a
weapon in an information war

I don't know what scandal you're talking about, but I think recent news qualifies as a scandal all by itself. This piece in the Washington Post is about how ChatGPT and similar bots are training society. It has information on how the chatbots get their data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology...

2023-04-04: Russian official wants Wikipedia blocked
https://www.rt.com/russia/574154-wikipe ... ck-russia/


2023-04-06: Former editor explains Wikipedia's anti-Russia bias
https://www.rt.com/russia/574279-wikipe ... kraine-us/