ericbarbour wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:31 amGood luck getting a large number of journalists to look SERIOUSLY into WP scandals. I, and various others, have been trying for 10+ years. The only major shitshow to receive this level of media attention, at least since 2013, was Qworty. They couldn't ignore that, baby, not after the Salon article ran.
What was Andrew Leonard's "reward" for publishing a major item about a WP editing scandal? Read the talkpage for his WP bio and draw your own conclusions.
The WMF and WP insiders get away, every year, with all kinds of stupidity, bad content, and abuse. And I still suspect it's partly because so many lazy and mediocre journalists routinely use and trust WP for fact checking. Fast, easy and free win out over "accuracy". No wonder so many reasonable people find the "mainstream media" to be problematic. The extreme right and left have already decided it's all corrupt propaganda--just can't agree what kind.
Maybe the outrage over this in Israel and with Jewish activists will finally stir up some dirty waters? We have been down this shitriver before. I will believe it when, and ONLY when, they finally do something serious about Piotrus and the other EEML "inside pool" players.
How many more scandals like this are required?
Now that Jewish activists and previously, Anonymous is in the business of stirring dirty waters against Wikipedia, is it going to take a Cosmo the God grade hack of many websites and frontpages across the world with details of shenanigans and redirects to either here or Wikipediocracy, for people to start paying attention at Wikipedia and treat it as if it's just another evil corp like Theranos and so on? Heck it could be coupled with some graffiti on famous landmarks and billboards, although god forbid a major tragedy has to occur in order to push Wiki-scepticism into the mainstream.ericbarbour wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:45 amPS: Teri Sforza doesn't have a Wikipedia BLP......yet.
Watch this space for (stupid and penny-ante) action. Chances are better than 50-50 that someone will start a "revenge bio".
Ironically if they put up the revenge bio, the chance of Jennsaurus getting her story out will increase by a lot.