You really are right in this, as if it's aged like wine! Presently criticism of Wikipedia has become so fashionable these days, particularly after Oct 7 and also after they had listed the ADL as a semi-depreciated source:Cla68 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 7:03 pmCrossposting this here since this is the appropriate thread:
I understand that this thread isn't meant primarily to discuss the latest Poland history cabal arbitration case, but there is nowhere else for me to say this, and that's that there is something singularly salient about this case.
Judging from the arbitrator comments on the case proposal page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... se#Support ), they have no idea what they're involved with here. Wikipedia administrators, and established users, are so used to being inside their insular Wikipedia bubble, and quickly reverting and banning any IP or new editors who mess with it, that they don't realize when they're overmatched or in over their heads. They don't understand that this issue has already been decided, and Wikipedia and its administration has no say in the decision.
The Holocaust remembrance industry is arguably the most organized, active, and motivated grievance machine in world history. They have good reason for their motivation, as violent antisemitism has been almost a constant throughout history, culminating in the genocide in WWII, and they obviously want to keep it from happening again, among other reasons.
It the participants in that community don't get what they want from this arbitration case, they are going to go after the Wikimedia Foundation, including its officers, and could very well go after the arbitrators. They have the full weight behind them of all Western media, all Western governments, all Western corporate industry, and all popular culture and social media. The WMF and arbitrators don't appear to understand this. The Grabowski essay is a shot across the bow, giving Wikipedia a chance to correct information about the Holocaust that the Holocaust scholars believe is problematic. If Wikipedia doesn't fix it to their satisfaction, the gloves will come off.
If any established Wikipedian or administrator reads this, you need to warn the arbitrators. Personally, I don't have much sympathy for the arbitrators, as I think the people administering one of the biggest websites on the planet deserve some consequences for their ineptness and laziness. However, what may be coming is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
https://www.jns.org/wikipedia-hates-israel-and-jews/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/202 ... 1e3fba0000
This time there are no signs of relenting at all. Wikipedia is about to get all the comeuppances it deserves.