Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Except there are defacto central authorities governing certain pages.

  Not only that there’s a turf war going on for control of them.

  Certain ahem religious organizations monitor a variety of pages and snipe any changes they disagree with. Businesses are doing it too.

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  • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And certain politicians

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which religious orgs?

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    • not_a_bot_i_swear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Probably all of them… Just a guess though.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I haven’t participated in wikipedia enough to see how these turf wars play out. I’ve heard that, unsurprisingly, there are groups that control pages, some opposed and some unopposed. It’s a really interesting thing to me.

    I’m afraid of politics, generally speaking. But I bet it would be interesting to be a part of all that.

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• Metz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  yeah, apart from the admins that have absolute authority over everything and can do whatever the hell they want and make up arbitrary rules that disqualify your perfectly valid sources.

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that doesn’t happen

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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There definitely are editors who game the rules. And they are enough of a problem that sometimes rules need to be modified specifically to handle them.

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        you seem to be conflating editors with admins.

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• Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think the word you’re looking for is “trustworthy” but yes.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I consider it a separate concept.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s is definitely not true…

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