It's gotten even worse:
There's now
an RfC and several
all-caps ragefests.
There's now a fork of the article about witchcraft in africa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... &limit=500
Taken to ANI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... _in_Africa
Now that it's been to both DRN and ANI, I wonder if it'll go to ArbCom for a second time.
By the way, it's hilarious how complicated it is to even vote in the RfC. There's five main options, each with several sub-options; then you also have the choice of ranking said preferences in several different ways - some combining, some not, and some both (through the use of commas; varied quantities of greater, lesser, and equal signs; and the two previous options combined with the optional use of parentheses - all respectively). There also alternate variations of each option and different signifiers of your felt confidence to choose from.
There's also a second sub-RfC with three new secondary options which can be optionally combined with the original ones. And of course there are multiple combinations and variations on those too.
AND there is a THIRD - yes, that's right - THIRD sub-sub-RfC expressing opinions on miscellaneous introductory statements, with the primary options being represented with the numbers 0 to 4. Each one of these options may be conditionally chosen and/or combined depending on expected outcome of the previous RfCs. As expected, there are also alterations, combinations, and negational statements of these options too.
Each one of the sub-RfCs is also subdivided into "introduction", "options", "general discussion", and "voting and comments" sub-sub-sections. There is also a general discussion shared between the three sub-sections of the RfC.
They are also
fighting over the sidebar template and
even attempted an RfD, which was over course closed as "no consensus".
This whole fight seems to also be linked to a similar debate over paganism from late last year:
https://wildhunt.org/2022/11/editorial- ... pedia.html
There's also been fighting over the word "witch" itself, witch (hehe) has resulted in the page
being moved and
this new article being created.
This fight has gotten so big that it has actually
gotten significant attention on Reddit.
Barbour, in a previous post you mentioned how the "Gays against Groomers" fight/RfC was unreadable and insane, well this RfC makes that look "normal" in comparison.
At the rate the wiki-bureaucracy is "advancing", they're going to have to set up a degree program so wannabe insiders can even begin to understand it. Maybe if they spent 10% of the effort they put into nonsense like this into actual content creation, Wikipedia might be half-way decent...
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