Yet another Stephen Harrison mash note to the WMF and its wacko supporters:
https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/wi ... itism.html
The free encyclopedia will become too toxic to sustain.
IT ALREADY WAS, YOU LITTLE SHIT. Abuse and dirty tricks are firmly baked into the culture. WP insiders have been doxing their enemies since the 2005-2006 "golden age", and they still do it today. Doxing will never be "completely banned" because the WMF and minions can't control the rest of the internet; but they LOVE being hypocrites about it.
And what about Musk? He's only briefly mentioned in this
New Yorker article. But it does quote Tamzin, a
paragon of "unreliable narrators", at some length.
https://archive.ph/cGHzr
Hey, no shit, what a "shocking revelation":
Bruckman finds Wikipedia “studiously nonpartisan” except in its “bias towards covering things people find fun. It has way too much content on science-fiction and fantasy novels compared to specific topics in science. They could maybe use more fish scientists and fewer fans of Terry Pratchett.” To its editors’ annoyance, they sometimes have to contend with an article that some entity—a P.R. or reputation-management firm, for instance—has been paid by a client to produce. (Editors can and do challenge, correct, or delete these, but there can be a lag with less prominent subjects.) Some articles on math and science, though they may be technically correct, can be almost impenetrable for the general reader. (Look up the statistical term “confidence interval,” which I had occasion to do recently, and see if you are as flummoxed as I was.) There has been a historic gender and racial imbalance among frequent contributors to the English-language Wikipedia—what data there is suggests that the majority are white and male. Ryan McGrady, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who both writes about and contributes to Wikipedia, told me that he sees plenty of articles on “sports, American politics, video games—they’re all well covered in English in particular. But there’s not as much high-quality information about places in Africa apart from big cities, for example, or the culture of places that are not largely English-speaking.”
Also, "There can be a lag" my ass. Sometimes the "lag" runs for YEARS. Hoax articles and intentional vandalism can last for obscene stretches of time.
This very long list is also very far from being "complete". Note how long many of them lasted: 5+ years is not unusual. And occasionally articles about obscure subjects are NEVER detected or repaired. And are still sitting there today.
And I know what the Wikifucks will scream: SOFIXIT. They don't care about anything but their OWN personal fixations.