Organized groups hire people to edit wiki pages, you can even spot them coaching each other on the talk section. Monied interests especially, but also history is under fire.
Revisionists are rife, every monster from history is seemingly being rehabilitated, for at least 15 years. Feudalism has pr firms now too, it was great! No perversion of reality is too obvious that the sheep will not mindlessly take it as fact.
Technical subjects’ articles utility depends on who wrote it, a share of them are showing off their learnings using technical words 95 percent or more will not fully grasp, while other entries are in common terms andd fully understandable.
Wikipedia is a great resource, but not infallible, or a reliable source in itself, although it’s listed sources could well be reliable sources.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yep like how North Face replaced photos of many pages that had people wearing their products in it. And this is probably just the tip of the iceberg, there must be plenty of stuff that hasn’t been caught yet.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Wow. Do you have a link for that?
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The North Face - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Face
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 21 hours ago
TIL about the South Butt.