Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires
Scrollone@feddit.it 16 hours agoWikipedia should start displaying a disclaimer banner that the person has been trying to edit the page
Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires
Scrollone@feddit.it 16 hours agoWikipedia should start displaying a disclaimer banner that the person has been trying to edit the page
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
That’s what the “Talk” section functionally does. People can (and do) check it when an article has lots of frequent heavy editing. And a lot of these edits do get rolled back as they’re exposed, as Wikipedia admins are reasonably good at keeping the propaganda generically pro-western rather than nakedly for-profit or regionally partisan.
At the same time, Wales is a self-proclaimed libertarian who is constantly putting his hand out to keep the website funded and operational. I have to assume there’s a certain degree of self-dealing happening in the background just to keep the site from getting the kind of abuse suffered by Internet Archive or Anna’s Archive.