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- Sun May 26, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Examples of the WMF interfering in en.wiki?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 728
Re: Examples of the WMF interfering in en.wiki?
I know they imposed BLP on all projects ( https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Biographies_of_living_people ) and the UCoC is meant (at least in theory) to create a standard of civility for smaller projects. However, I can't think of an example of them changing the PAGs of a project, me...
- Sun May 26, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Examples of the WMF interfering in en.wiki?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 728
Re: Examples of the WMF interfering in en.wiki?
Are there any historical examples of the WMF, for one reason or another, interfering with en.wikipedia (or another language wikipedia) to force a change of policies or guidelines? Among the most obvious vectors of interference are the many Foundation employees and grant recipients who are also "fun...
- Sun May 26, 2024 3:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Examples of the WMF interfering in en.wiki?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 728
Examples of the WMF interfering in en.wiki?
Are there any historical examples of the WMF, for one reason or another, interfering with en.wikipedia (or another language wikipedia) to force a change of policies or guidelines?
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR
- Replies: 49
- Views: 24563
Re: Katherine Maher Named C.E.O. of NPR
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-founder-and-wikimedia-foundations-regime-change-operative-ceo/ Scroll down on that thegrayzone.com page, past the two pics of Jimbo, and start reading about Katherine Maher. It gets really spooky. Yep, I say she's CIA all-the-way. W...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Political
- Topic: Russian interference
- Replies: 4
- Views: 507
Re: Russian interference
Oh wow. Politics is not a science. You're treating these books as if they are scientific research, which is indeed "vetted by the scholarly community" and must pass "peer-review". These books are nothing like that. They are not "vetted by the scholarly community" as they are political POV, not scie...
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Political
- Topic: Russian interference
- Replies: 4
- Views: 507
Re: Russian interference
I guess it all depends on whether these are decent scholarly sources. In real life, yes, but Wikipedia makes it pretty clear: ""Reliable scholarship – Material such as an article, book, monograph, or research paper that has been vetted by the scholarly community is regarded as reliable, where the m...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: Political
- Topic: Russian interference
- Replies: 4
- Views: 507
Russian interference
The article "Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections" is a very peculiar article. It has over 500 citations, but, as far as I can tell, only ONE scholarly citation. The one scholarly citation sharply criticizes the narrative that has been promulgated by the popular media & by the US...
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:11 am
- Forum: Political
- Topic: Are you "queerphobic"?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3496
Re: Are you "queerphobic"?
Whoever "Ad Orientem" is, I like them. He made the first comment in favor of deleting the essay, and said "It smacks of an attempt to turn Wikipedia into an ideological echo chamber. We need to draw a line somewhere and this seems like a good place to start." Amen. There was one comment in the AfD ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 3:22 am
- Forum: Political
- Topic: Are you "queerphobic"?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3496
Re: Are you "queerphobic"?
Whoever "Ad Orientem" is, I like them. He made the first comment in favor of deleting the essay, and said
"It smacks of an attempt to turn Wikipedia into an ideological echo chamber. We need to draw a line somewhere and this seems like a good place to start."
Amen.
"It smacks of an attempt to turn Wikipedia into an ideological echo chamber. We need to draw a line somewhere and this seems like a good place to start."
Amen.
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:11 am
- Forum: Political
- Topic: Are you "queerphobic"?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3496
Re: Are you "queerphobic"?
Good post man. You've identified one of the core problems with Wikipedia. One of the main contributors to political bias on Wikipedia is the fact that there is almost no ideological diversity among Wikipedia editors. That is particularly evident in topics related to sexuality and gender. I think the...