By and large Wikipedia is managed by autocratic administrators who simple got here in the early days. In 2019 they discovered for example that they had named a random Texas kid as admin of the Scots instance who just pretended to speak the language in the most over-the-top ironic way possible. He defaced hundreds of pages and got named as the admin when he was like 12.
90% of their editors are men and most are white, so it’s like maybe 75-80% of their editors are white men yknow. There’s actually very few pages on notable women because they keep being deleted and women keep being chased away from the platform. Essentially if someone doesn’t like you writing on Wikipedia they’ll get their admin friend to ban your IP.
If you make an edit you’ll have it reverted in a few minutes by hawks who watch pages all day long and claim these pages as theirs.
The funniest example (funniest because it’s so sad you just laugh) was some guy who named his account after his Belgian Army grandpa arguing that the genocide in the Belgian Congo was not a genocide. I couldn’t even make this up.
There’s a few people in this thread who edit wikipedia and managed to get some of their edits through but honestly even they explain you have to jump through hoops and understand how Wikipedia works to get anything done, like actually participate in the community before you even make any edits. The idea that wikipedia can be edited by anyone or is edited by people “like you or me” is a complete lie upheld by Jimmy Wales who wants to make it seem as though his weird Ayn Rand libertarian ideas actually work in the real world.
80% of edits are made by just 1% of users, and there’s another guy called Philip Cross who edits every day from 6am to 10pm without fail, even during the weekends or national holidays like Christmas and New Year’s. with over 100k edits, he mostly makes pro-war, Zionist, and climate change denial edits. It’s been suggested this is a sockpuppet account managed by the MI5 or other British agency.
By and large Wikipedia is managed by autocratic administrators who simple got here in the early days. In 2019 they discovered for example that they had named a random Texas kid as admin of the Scots instance who just pretended to speak the language in the most over-the-top ironic way possible. He defaced hundreds of pages and got named as the admin when he was like 12.
90% of their editors are men and most are white, so it’s like maybe 75-80% of their editors are white men yknow. There’s actually very few pages on notable women because they keep being deleted and women keep being chased away from the platform. Essentially if someone doesn’t like you writing on Wikipedia they’ll get their admin friend to ban your IP.
If you make an edit you’ll have it reverted in a few minutes by hawks who watch pages all day long and claim these pages as theirs.
The funniest example (funniest because it’s so sad you just laugh) was some guy who named his account after his Belgian Army grandpa arguing that the genocide in the Belgian Congo was not a genocide. I couldn’t even make this up.
We cover most of it here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia and even then it’s far from being exhaustive.
There’s a few people in this thread who edit wikipedia and managed to get some of their edits through but honestly even they explain you have to jump through hoops and understand how Wikipedia works to get anything done, like actually participate in the community before you even make any edits. The idea that wikipedia can be edited by anyone or is edited by people “like you or me” is a complete lie upheld by Jimmy Wales who wants to make it seem as though his weird Ayn Rand libertarian ideas actually work in the real world.
a third of the articles on wikipedia have been authored by this chud https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-the-man-behind-a-third-of-whats-on-wikipedia/
80% of edits are made by just 1% of users, and there’s another guy called Philip Cross who edits every day from 6am to 10pm without fail, even during the weekends or national holidays like Christmas and New Year’s. with over 100k edits, he mostly makes pro-war, Zionist, and climate change denial edits. It’s been suggested this is a sockpuppet account managed by the MI5 or other British agency.
what time zone?
I assume local to the account, London. This blog did a deep dive on Philip Cross: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/05/the-philip-cross-affair/
nice, thanks for this, very informative