Wikipedia and Russia

[Daniel Brandt]

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

[boredbird]

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

Any fair account would seem biased compared to this.

In 2014, a violent coup in the Ukrainian capital led to Crimea’s reunification with Russia and the outbreak of conflict in Donbass.

[ericbarbour]

I tried to find this "Arseny Natapov" on en-WP and other Wikimedia sites. Nothing. Either he was editing ru-WP under a pseudonym, or this is just more crude Putin-government disinformation. You will have to ask someone on ru-WP for more info, because I can't find anything--apart from endless ranting about how much they dislike their own government.

Russia Today does very good news reporting. Except for Russian subjects. Then they are highly unreliable. Needless to say, the story is being spread by notorious "fake news" sites that have been spewing pro-Russia propaganda.

You know there's a problem when Daily Stormer is repeating it:

https://dailystormer.in/wikipedia-biase ... r-reveals/

This was literally the ONLY place on ru-WP I could find any mention of Natapov (sorry, Cyrillic):
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0 ... 0%B8%D1%8E

Translated part of the squabble:

Instead of a thousand words. - Police (obs.) 13:41, April 4, 2023 (UTC)
Publication of April 4, 2023: "Herman Klimenko: the Russian analogue of Wikipedia will cost a penny"; Publication of May 6, 2022: "IT expert Klimenko: It is impossible to create an analogue of" Wikipedia "." - SSR (obs.) 06:19, April 5, 2023 (UTC)

As Klimenko said exactly: "The fact is that the volume of the Wikipedia base, which annoys us and contains the aforementioned" distortions ", is small-1-2%." The question is not what is written there, but that it annoys them. Vladimirpf 08:56, April 5, 2023 (UTC)

Even if the ex -participants have a country's idea of the realities of the project, then what can we say about third -party people?
Ex-editor of the Russian Wikipedia Arseniy Natapov, answering the question of Brief, whether Wikipedia is used in information wars: I believe that yes, it is used, and both sides with varying degrees of success. For a very long time, the governing body of the RUVP - Arbcom, was controlled by Russian patriots who made the relevant decisions. Now, of course, pro -Western and liberal participants use Wikipedia in the information war, while the patriots were replaced from there in various ways. SAS1975KR (obs.) 07:52, April 5, 2023 (UTC)

This is not a strange idea, this is a deliberate distortion of facts. Right exactly repeats the manual of the commander in chief. Swarrel (obs.) 08:28, April 5, 2023 (UTC)
This “ex-editor of Russian Wikipedia” is a global immortal. - SSR (obs.) 08:43, April 5, 2023 (UTC)
Another governing body of the RUVP is now Arbcom. Vladimirpf 08:53, April 5, 2023 (UTC)
It has become fashionable recently to invite various “ex -participants” of Wikipedia to different conferences, to interview them, where they tearfully tell them how difficult it was on Wikipedia, how the Western influence and internal cuisine of the project presses on pro -Russian participants and the rest of this kind. Pannet (obs.) 22:17, April 5, 2023 (UTC)

Makes me wonder if he exists at all.