Toxicity at Wikipedia

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009937

by kurtreed • 3 years ago

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hilbert425• 3 years ago

Wikipedia has repeatedly blocked my access to edit pages in recent years. The block isn't aimed at me specifically but rather my ISP's block of IP addresses.

Frankly, this blunt unsophisticated and wrongly-targeted discrimination is outrageous and I no longer even attempt to edit or correct mistakes. I know however the blocks are still in place when I accidentally hit edit or such.

If Wikipedia was functioning properly as an organization it would address these problems.

Furthermore, I find myself using Wikipedia less and less because of its never-ceasing demands for money.

One has to wonder what's really going on inside the organization.

ycombinatrix3• 3 years ago

are you logging in or editing anonymously?

boffinAudio3• 3 years ago

Why would it matter if the IP block is simply being dropped?

hilbert425• 3 years ago

I don't get as far as logging in—see my other comments.

kurtreed• 3 years ago

The real shocker is that there are two dozen sexual harassment scandals against women on Wikipedia, involving editors, admins and even high-up stewards and sysops.

https://rdrama.net/post/215764/there-are-two-dozen-sexual-ha...

s08148692• 3 years ago

"Despite the fact that anyone can edit any page"

This couldn't be further from the truth. Anything even slightly controversial or popular is heavily gated

boffinAudio3• 3 years ago

Wikipedia models the social issues faced in the USA today.

The problems it faces are problems all Americans face.

A real solution to the problem is to diversify the nationalities of the core editors involved - however, as a resource, Wikipedia is too important to escape American hegemony, so this won't happen. Or, at the very least, the context of operations will always be framed from the perspective of the donations from the American military-industrial complex, which has had its grips on the Wikimedia foundation since its birth, since Wikipedia is a formidable propaganda organ in its own right ..

Toxicity at Wikipedia

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