Only hours after doxing Wikipedia volunteers to a court in India, Wikipedia tweeted out this 5-month old feel-good piece about protecting volunteers. “Because people can not contribute what t…

Warning: This thread has been brigaded.

For anyone who’s been brought on to here, especially mods, I’ll leave these links to some mainstream-ish news sources which explain why Wikipedia is not infalliable after all.

In 2014, there was an incident in the Netherlands where two Wikipedia administrators went to a woman’s home to harass her.

  • ping@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This presumes the person you’re responding to is even right wing. But I doubt you have any evidence, other than circular reasoning about their criticisms of Wikipedia.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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      4 months ago

      This presumes the person you’re responding to is even right wing.

      What?

      But I doubt you have any evidence, other than circular reasoning about their criticisms of Wikipedia.

      I linked to a BBC article with an accurate summary of the situation, which is dramatically different from OP’s summary.

      • wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.worldOP
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        4 months ago

        With all due respect, your pathetic brigading attempt has now resulted in a childish implicit death threat which was sent to my inbox. The mods here would likely not take it kindly after seeing the screenshot.

            • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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              4 months ago

              Just report it. Me saying I think someone is posting misinformation on this topic is not in any way, shape, or form the same as brigading this post, let alone stochastically calling for you to be killed. I would think that goes without saying, but apparently not.

              Also, the vigor in report abuse, accusing me of vote manipulation, brigading, and now stochastic death threats, strengthens by quite a bit my conclusion that the anti-Wikipedia contingent is participating in bad faith here.

              • wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.worldOP
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                4 months ago

                By your logic and on the other hand, your presumably “pro-Wikipedia” contigent are behaving not much different than the defenders of Theranos and perhaps Andrew Tate’s fanboys either.