Stefan Mileschin

Clash of Gods

The personalities of Wikipedia editors are getting even more out of hand with reports of beatings, doxxings, and harassment.

For a while now, Wikipedia has relied on a team of volunteer editors who appear to get off on the power over what others write. They appear a little too proud of their ability to define that porn stars are “notable” while Fudzilla does not exist. Recently they even censored their own boss Jimmy Wales.

However, that is nothing to what has been going on in China where the volunteers felt it was their god given right to push a pro government line and embarked on a campaign involving physical beatings, doxxings, and harassment.

Normally the Wikimedia Foundation ignores these particular power abuses, but in this case the outfit had to admit that they overstepped their god-like powers a bit.

It has banned seven high-level users in September and temporarily demoted a dozen others for abuses "unprecedented in scope and nature."

The foundation accused these volunteers of biasing it in favor of the Chinese government's viewpoint. This incident involved a monthlong investigation found that the veteran editors were "coordinating to bias the encyclopaedia and bias positions of authority" around a pro-Beijing viewpoint, in part by meddling in administrator elections and threatening, and even physically assaulting, other volunteers.

https://fudzilla.com/news/54069-wiki...-each-other-up