Man, that essay reads like someone spent a grand total of 5 days reading
Wikipedia policies, ventured into some politically fraught articles with a
right-wing agenda, got taken to AN/I for it, and subsequently blocked or
banned.

Dan


On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 6:41 AM Vi to <vituzzu.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know whether crossing the line "musk [...] fixing [...] Wikipedia"
> gives me more disgust or fear.
>
> Vito
>
> Il giorno lun 12 dic 2022 alle ore 05:12 reybueno1--- via Wikimedia-l <
> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> ha scritto:
>
>> This just up in /r/trueunpopularopinion and YCombinator:
>>
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/zieyyf/wikipedia_is_not_so_great_and_is_overrated/
>>
>>
>> Quoted below because it was explicitly released under public domain:
>>
>> You all have heard by now that Elon Musk said that Wikipedia has a "left
>> wing bias" when the article about Twitter Files had been suggested for
>> deletion. This has been received with mixed responses from liberals and
>> conservatives alike; the former dismissing it as "an attack on free
>> knowledge" and the latter cheering the move as "against censorship" and
>> vindication of their beliefs that Big Tech is biased against them.
>>
>> True, Wikipedia is supposedly editable by anyone around the world and I
>> had been an on and off editor there for years mostly doing small-ish edits
>> like fixing typos and reverting obvious vandalism. This is done while on IP
>> as opposed to using accounts because I would rather that some edits (i.e.
>> sensitive topics like religious and political areas) not tied to my name
>> and identity. However, reality is far from the preferred sugar-coated
>> description of Wikipedia, particularly its editing community.
>>
>> The editing community in overall is best described as a slightly
>> hierarchical and militaristic "do everything right" structure,
>> traditionally associated with Dell and recently Foxconn and now-defunct
>> Theranos. Exceptions apply in quieter and outlier areas such as local
>> geography and space, usually the top entry points for new users wanting to
>> try their first hand. There are higher tolerance of good-faith mistakes
>> such as point-of-view problems and using unreliable resources, which are
>> usually explained in detail on how to correct by them rather than a mere
>> warning template or even an abrupt block.
>>
>> Ultimately those sub-communities which can be said as populated by
>> exopedians, have relatively little to no power over the wider and core
>> communities, mostly dominated by metapedians. A third group called
>> mesopedians often alternates between these inner and outer workings.
>> Communities can have shared topical interest which are grouped by
>> WikiProject, an example being WikiProject Science
>>
>> I spend a lot of time casually browsing through edit wars (can be so lame
>> at times) like a fly on the wall, along with meta venues of Wikipedia such
>> as Articles for Deletion, Centralized discussion Neutral Point of View
>> Noticeboard, Biographical of Living Persons Noticeboard, Conflict of
>> Interest Noticeboard, Administrator's Noticeboard Incidents, Sockpuppet
>> investigations, Arbitration Committee noticeboard which is the "supreme
>> court" in Wikipedia community for serious behavioral and conduct disputes.
>> Therefore I can sum up how the editing community really functions, although
>> not really as extensive as you might expect because I am not a
>> "Wikipedioholic" with respect to inner workings.
>>
>> Deletionism and inclusionism
>> This has been very perennial and core reasons for just about any disputes
>> on Wikipedia ever D Deletionists treat Wikipedia as another "regular
>> encyclopedia" where information has to be limited once it become very much
>> to be covered; like cutting out junk, while inclusionists treats Wikipedia
>> as a comprehensive encyclopedia not bound by papers and thus can afford to
>> cover as much information as it can take; one man's junk could be another
>> man's treasure. Personally I support the latter and often the conflict
>> between two editing ideologies leads to factionalism, where attempts to
>> understand mutual feelings and perspectives are inadequate or even none at
>> all.
>>
>> There are no absolute standards of what defines "encyclopedic knowledge"
>> and "notability". Inclusionism posits that almost everything could become
>> valuable and encyclopedic in the future, even if they're aren't today. An
>> example I can think of is events, figures and stories from World War II.
>> Deletionism has been closely related to "academic standard kicks" and rely
>> on the premise that Wikipedia has to be of high standard and concise. There
>> are people who deem an addition of something as useful, and there are those
>> who think it's "trivia" or "crufty" something that is nominally discouraged
>> if not prohibited by Wikipedia's documentation (see this in particular,
>> although sometimes exceptions are applied through the spirit of "Ignoring
>> all rules for sake of improvement", which are frequent at entertainment and
>> gaming topics).
>>
>> On pages, notability debates around a person subject and otherwise are
>> frequently the main point of discussion in Articles for Deletion threads,
>> where articles deemed not substantial enough (such as very few sources) are
>> suggested for deletion. Usually they will run for a week but they can be
>> quickly closed if there are too many votes in favor of "keep", "delete" and
>> so on, the AFD nomination is withdrawn by the initiator, or that the
>> nomination is found to have been done in bad faith (such as to "censor"
>> articles from public view for questionable motives like ideology, paid
>> editing or so).
>>
>> Here I believe that deletionists are seen far more harshly by
>> inclusionists, than the vice versa. The chief reason is to add something,
>> you have to navigate through the user experience unfriendly editing
>> interfaces (although somewhat improved in recent years) all the while
>> having to scroll through the internet to find sources and references to
>> add. When you found some you have to go through an extra hoop to assess
>> whether they are reliable or not, before finally transcribing the
>> information through your own words which has to stick to the neutral point
>> of view (NPOV) policy; paraphrasing that are so close are not allowed
>> because, copyright. Non-English speaking editors would often find the
>> latter very difficult.
>>
>> In contrast, as per an old adage, destroying something is easier than
>> building something, deletions are comparatively easier than addition. This
>> could be the reason why deletionism currently maintains dominance over the
>> whole site as I see it, since in order to become an established an esteemed
>> editor, one has to garner a high amount of edits which are not reverted.
>> Thus, many editors like to gain these "scores" by deleting "unuseful
>> information" from passages up to entire articles by interpreting the
>> documentations and rules strictly, the latter through processes such as
>> Articles for Deletion and if confident enough, Proposed Deletion that
>> doesn't require discussion. Simply speaking, it's a feature not a bug and
>> aren't necessarily beholden to any political ideology; a liberal is as
>> equally likely as a conservative to become a hated deletionist.
>>
>> Even though every edit changes are recorded and displayed through page
>> histories which you can see for any given articles by clicking "View
>> History" at the top, the bone of contention remains particularly when page
>> deletions results in the redaction of these histories from public view.
>> This will be explained further later.
>>
>> Some historical contexts that can be think of regarding the current
>> prominence of deletionism are the excessive amount of Pokemon pages during
>> or before 2007 which had alienated some readers and editors alike because
>> search engines back then are not quite as adequate as today in terms of
>> finding precise information. Another is that child predators like Nathan
>> Larson used to sneak in as inclusionists to warp Wikipedia to fit their
>> agenda all the time, which are indelibly horrendous to all of us here and
>> those back then. Think of the poisoning of the well and the fruits from a
>> poisonous tree. Furthermore there are also large portion of userbases from
>> tech companies like Intel and those from the academic world (maybe instead
>> of GLAMs, short for galleries, libraries, archives and museums) that gained
>> top positions such as administrators, bringing along their work culture and
>> so-called "academic standards kick" respectively. To be absolutely fair, I
>> find that there are instances where deletionism is right enough,
>> specifically the removal of copyright violation and libel materials on
>> biographical pages of any living persons.
>>
>> Regardless of whether a page is deleted or not, they remain available in
>> Wikipedia's servers and accessible to administrators or higher only.
>>
>> Eventually, what defines as "encyclopedic knowledge" are vulnerable to
>> systemic biases as well. Different from some Musk's thoughts about it,
>> users who are white, male, US/UK/CA/EU/AU/NZ, middle or old aged, and
>> English speaker tend to have the greatest advantage above the rest in the
>> editing community. With this in mind, a prominent musical artist in Zambia
>> may be treated as too small-bore enough for a page on Wikipedia by an
>> editor in Canada. Shopping malls in the US are less likely to be deleted
>> than those in Vietnam. Such a bias doesn't go one way; the hypothetical
>> artist in Zambia would be "unimportant" to someone in Peru.
>>
>> This is the top causes of animosity between editors and also why many
>> editors chose to quit or rather fell from grace. You will always hate that
>> kid who like to ruin your LEGO structure every time you have assembled the
>> blocks.
>>
>> Neutral point of view
>> Different from mere deletions and additions, this normally means that how
>> to present a given information in a way to the readers ideally so that no
>> disproportionate biases towards or against something are left in their
>> impressions. You see arguments and conflicts concerning such a lot in
>> political articles, historical articles and geography topics of areas under
>> dispute from two or more nations. Say that a political figure is engaged in
>> activities that are remotely linked to extremism. Side A would argue that
>> the figure is therefore an extremist and it should be made prominent on
>> that page and any other linked pages, but Side B wants to tone it down by
>> writing it something like "Political figure was engaged in activities which
>> were sometimes reported by some as extremist" and limit it to a mere
>> mention on a single page. Another is a nation should be said as a
>> "partially recognized state" because some UN members don't recognize it as
>> such and instead as part of a bigger country, with others expressing views
>> that simply having an effective sovereignty for its own and different from
>> another nations would be enough to be deemed as a state.
>>
>> It can come into play on cases involving "fringe theories" as well, like
>> Bigfoots, UFOs and medical treatments, although Wikipedia indeed has a
>> preference of giving prominence to mainstream views in these cases,
>> something I don't find a problem with and is quite different from regular
>> harmful biases.
>>
>> Venues for resolution in this case are Neutral Point of View noticeboard,
>> along with Request for Comment. The latter entails a process where a notice
>> is put up in a centralized noticeboard all the while a pool of
>> experienced/established editors receive notifications to comment, provide
>> insights and make suggestions on a given issue. A month is usually on how
>> these discussions are up and running unless there is a need of extension
>> because of reasons such as unbroken deadlock.
>>
>> Along with deletionism and inclusionism, this is a major cause of editors
>> "going naughty" and getting blocked/banned/kicked out, whether for right or
>> spurious reasons.
>>
>> Conduct
>> The most important part of this post in my honest opinion. I'll start
>> this section by writing about edit war. Usually when you change something
>> in Wikipedia and it was undone/reverted by somebody else, then you have
>> only two tries before you get reported to the edit-war noticeboard if
>> you're stubborn enough not to go to the article's talk page ("Talk" in the
>> top left) for discussion, either by the person undoing your edits or by a
>> third party. In the meantime you get notifications on your personal talk
>> pages ("Talk" on the top right) inviting you for such discussion and if
>> lucky enough, the Wikipedia Teahouse for further help by some kind-hearted
>> editors, increasingly a rarity these days. In some quieter or outer areas
>> where as said before are slightly lenient, you may get up to approx. five
>> chances counting your original edit before getting referred to the admins.
>>
>> The tries count are reset after 24 hours but can be retained further just
>> as a guard against "gaming the rules". Clearer cut vandalism (like putting
>> gibberish such as "LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL" at any pages) usually gets reported to
>> a separate noticeboard for administrators to intervene, although first time
>> vandals regularly get warnings on their talk pages beforehand. When a
>> report is there and if found guilty of edit-warring, administrators would
>> either give ultimatums to the users in question or block their accounts for
>> a day. They could escalate to multiple days, weeks and up to indefinite
>> (practically infinite) period should the behavior continues beyond that.
>> The same goes for vandalism, although they are dealt more harshly with many
>> prompt indefinite blocks (indeffs) for "vandalism-only accounts".
>>
>> Regular editors can be in danger of falling from grace too either by
>> themselves or by others. Because Wikipedia is commonly seen by so many as
>> the biggest comprehensive encyclopedia in the world, sometimes equated to
>> history itself, many vested interests, feelings and sentiments have been
>> invested on the website.
>>
>> Those who are nationalists or otherwise fanatics of any imaginable
>> notions found themselves having incentives to make Wikipedia to support
>> their narratives both as an end itself or rather just means for other ends
>> such as "proving that they're great in the long annals of great history".
>> The same applies to run off the mill "promotional editing" by corporations
>> and individuals, along with those made by their supporters or fans. On the
>> opposite many people find it extremely attractive to twist it to denigrate
>> any ideologies, corporations, people, and just about anything they
>> personally oppose. For instance, they can make an article and fill it with
>> disparaging information against them, which is called an "attack page".
>>
>> I find that there are kernels of truth in the commonly-held viewpoint
>> that "Wikipedia is a placeholder of information" and that "Wikipedia is
>> history". A MIT report described how judges' behavior are increasingly
>> influenced by Wikipedia articles, while there are initiatives by space
>> missions such as Beresheet and Peregrine to perform civilizational backups
>> of humanity with all of English Wikipedia (version as of a given date) in
>> the event of collapse.
>>
>> After having their way, to keep their changes forever in "annals of
>> history" or simply the "placeholders of information" in general,
>> gate-keeping measures are utilized. A simple example would be using
>> excessively harsh language against editors who made a change challenging a
>> given status quo. In contrast, if anybody has a reason to radically change
>> a page and make sure it stays unassailable afterwards, the same set of
>> actions are used too but arguably these would be "antigatekeeping" measures
>> instead.
>>
>> In gatekeeping/antigatekeeping one would resort to different levels of
>> intepretation regarding PAGs (policies and guidelines) and user essays, the
>> latter sometimes used as a basis of many editorial and administrative
>> actions. The documentations can often contradict each other, like how "not
>> indiscriminate" is to "not a paper encyclopedia", and on top of all, can be
>> overruled by ignoring these if anybody sees fit. Hence, whoever has the
>> "biggest fist" gets to be the most advantageous in Wikipedia community. In
>> order to have the "biggest fist", they can befriend anyone sharing
>> interests with their own and form a cabal/gang that look after their own.
>> To increase their power and when enough time had passed they can nominate
>> each other for administrator positions giving them extra privileges of
>> blocking users, deleting pages, protecting an article from editing by
>> lower-ranked users. You don't get paid for spending your efforts and time
>> on editing Wikipedia unless perhaps you've listed a Venmo link or a crypto
>> address on your user profile, and these administrative tools alone are so
>> addictive and appealing given that you are essentially in control of the
>> important bits of "writing history" if you have these, apart from usual
>> human nature. Wikipedia is among the top 10 visited websites in the world
>> after all.
>>
>> Even more, there are additional ranks above administrator positions. Two
>> of those are CheckUsers (CU) and Oversighters. CU has the power to look
>> through IP address used by an account to see if it was a sockpuppet account
>> of a person, while Oversighters have super-delete rights to hide contents
>> or pages, even beyond the reach of administrators.
>>
>> Those on the other end of the power-tripping, gate-keeping and so on
>> rarely fares well. One would find them belittled, bullied by those editors.
>> Should they attempt to properly resolve an issue through established
>> processes such as talk page discussions, dispute resolution noticeboard,
>> and up to the infamous Administrator's Noticeboard Incidents (ANI), they
>> would expect to find obstructions upon obstructions along the way. If the
>> victim decides to invite other editors to give balanced/impartial opinions
>> and suggestions on a problem they would find themselves stonewalled on the
>> grounds that these are "canvassing". It can be quite hypocritical if the
>> "bully" had their gang friends informed beforehand, which is reasonably
>> believed to often be the case. Finally, if it escalates into the ANI, this
>> is where it start to get out of hand.
>>
>> The reason why I use the term "infamous" is because ANI is the
>> mother-lode of all kinds of ugly dramas. It is frequently the first place
>> in getting an editor sanctioned or so on. The bullies (I do not use the
>> term lightly) would then put all sorts of allegations and aspersions
>> against other for any types of wrongdoing, whether real or perceived, big
>> or small, or whether the result is a real harm or just a nothing burger.
>> Regardless, if they twisted the rules (derisively referred as
>> "wikilawyering" or otherwise "gaming the system") and played the victim
>> good enough, the passing administrators would then close the discussion and
>> place administrative actions against the "real" victim. Common egregious
>> example of such an action is the "not here to build an encyclopedia"
>> indefinite/permanent block that can be arbitrary interpreted from any given
>> actions. It's ironic given that the bullies are guilty of such as well. A
>> prime example of twisting the rules to railroad/squeeze out other editors
>> would start with so-called bad faith negotiation, where they promised a
>> victim not to remove content at other pages if the victim lets the bully
>> keep their changes in a page. Soon the bully reneged it and when confronted
>> by the victim the bully immediately accused them of being "tendentious" or
>> "POV pusher".
>>
>> The bullies, which can consist of most editors operating at the inner
>> workings, aren't necessarily beholden to any ideologies and come in all
>> stripes. The only attribute that they all share is the addiction to power.
>>
>> After such permablocks, most would be forced to leave it for good,
>> further bleeding the editors numbers. Still, because Wikipedia's so
>> preeminent and no viable competitors are currently available, some would
>> rather stay behind, disguise their identity and either continue editing or
>> start over in different areas. For those with knowledge of foreign
>> languages, they could simply switch to other language Wikipedias to
>> continue their work far from most perturbances. A smaller number would come
>> back as vandals to spite editors who had wronged them.
>>
>> This is where "sockpuppetry investigations" kick in, mostly referred as
>> SPI. Editors go there to start a new case if they suspect that an account
>> is an alt/sock account of someone else particularly users who evaded the
>> blocks/bans. When a user is blocked or banned for good, they are relegated
>> to a pariah status much akin to "unpersoning", Scientology's suppressive
>> persons, and the lowest ones in North Korea's Songbun, in the respect that
>> any and all edits by them under other accounts or IPs are liable to be
>> reverted/undone pursuant to policy pertaining to block evasion. While the
>> original goal of not separating the wheat from the chaff is expressedly to
>> prevent them from gaining further recognition and diminish the spirit of
>> the block, in practice this means a Monkey's Paw that any further potential
>> good contributions from them would be lost forever, handicapping the
>> improvement of encyclopedia as a whole in a way or more. Other editors have
>> the exception from edit-war policy to revert and undone any changes from
>> the violators of the blocks, perhaps as well as anybody who helped them. In
>> effect this is like what the Meatball Wiki said, a "PunishReputation".
>>
>> During a SPI, there are "clerks" who will look through the user's
>> contribution history to see if there is a similarity in pattern to warrant
>> a block for abuse of multiple accounts (sockpuppetry). If that alone is not
>> enough, the CheckUsers can then be called upon to check and compare the IP
>> used by the accounts.
>>
>> If a user is determined to have engaged in sockpuppetry, the userpage of
>> original and alt accounts used are then replaced with a scarlet letter
>> notice such as this example boasting that which sock account belongs to who
>> and therefore blocked. Forget about "denying recognition", this is simply a
>> punitive name-and-shame.
>>
>> The SPI case, now listing the accounts and IP used, would then be
>> archived in a separate page, still publicly viewable. This is despite
>> recent GDPR regulations and the implication that major privacy-improving
>> adjustments should've been made for the process while keeping it viable.
>> Try that in Reddit and you'd be instantly banned for doxxing, I can assure
>> you.
>>
>> In there you can effectively cosplay as a CSI although substantive
>> attention are given to clerks, administrators and CheckUsers. Keep in mind
>> that the results and outcomes of most if not all sockpuppet investigations
>> aren't really 100% accurate, given that there are a lot of unforeseen
>> variables such as the imitation of writing and behavior styles that are
>> mostly a result of multiple people pushing any particular editorial change
>> for any reasons i.e. brother helping his sister, along with the use of
>> software that can mask your IP addresses such as VPNs and TeamViewer. Those
>> admins in charge of sockpuppetry investigations often aren't privy to the
>> root cause of a "sockpuppetry" or "block evasion" and as such tend to for
>> example, underestimate the amount of users who has the right reasons to
>> support an edit made in violation of a block.
>>
>> VPN IP addresses, which are used for obvious privacy reasons, are blocked
>> in sight by any administrators pursuant to policy against open proxies.
>> They even have a dedicated WikiProject and a bot specializing in finding
>> and blocking these proxies, with the result being a great inconvenience for
>> people wishing to edit from countries such as Russia and China.
>>
>> In time, if someone continues a behavior the other editors deemed as
>> "disruptive" or "vandal" past the initial block, they end up getting
>> displayed in so-called "Long Term Abuse" caselist. Right there, their
>> accounts and/or IP addresses, along with a likely-skewed description of
>> what they've done were listed out. The places they've been and accounts
>> outside of Wikipedia were frequently exposed there, as if it's an
>> opposition research and spiteful doxxing. Things that'll get you quickly
>> banned here are just a normal Tuesday over at Wikipedia, with GDPR out of
>> the window.
>>
>> As I see it, there are two categories of LTAs/vandals/whatever you call
>> it. The first are the inherent vandals who had been problematic and
>> disruptive for Wikipedia upon their first edit, and the other are those who
>> had been regular or good standing users in the past until their fall from
>> grace, normally caused by themselves such as being too overworked over one
>> thing but could be by others, like the bullying example.
>>
>> There is a reasonable possibility that some of those LTAs/vandals would
>> be redeemed and become a good editor once again if enough diplomacy and
>> mediation were tried. However, those would be a time-consuming process
>> compared to simply actioning them, and I reasonably suspect that some of
>> those are intentionally provoked by corrupt admins or their friends into
>> vandal or disruptive editing in order for them to increase that admin
>> actions count so as to further their own standing in the community, and to
>> stay away from losing their cherished tools if their KPI fell low enough in
>> a given period.
>>
>> It's fearful that the cycle of toxicities in Wikipedia could eventually
>> led to real-world harm, though I will not further speculate how that might
>> transpire for fear of stuffing the beans and giving bad ideas. However,
>> VICE had reported in 2016 that an editor had nearly driven to suicide after
>> being subjected to online abuse by the editors despite what the
>> documentation say about community collegiality. Furthermore, just before
>> Musk' comment against Wikipedia, the Anonymous group hacked a Chinese
>> ministry site and a satellite system out of the suspicion that a state
>> actor has manipulated Wikipedia's system and process to censor information
>> about their hacking activities against China. It was a hot news in Taiwan
>> then.
>>
>> Afterthoughts
>> Theoretically a deep and comprehensive reform is past due for Wikipedia
>> in order to (re-)foster collegiality among the members of Wikipedia
>> community and reduce the amount of synergies that leads to intractable
>> conflicts, as opposed to sinecures such as blockings and SPI which often
>> treats the symptoms but not the cause.
>>
>> Still, it appears that the core editors and/or administrators are so
>> content enough for the present status quo and thus doom any effort to
>> change the system. An example would be the temporary ban of an
>> administrator made in 2019 by the Wikimedia Foundation (ultimately
>> responsible for maintaining English Wikipedia and any other projects such
>> as Wikimedia Commons for photos and Wikipedias written in other languages),
>> nearly causing the split of Wikipedia into two or more. This is not to
>> mention that presently Wikipedia has a financial cancer and having to beg
>> for donations despite having sufficient funds so it may be worthwhile to
>> put your donations for the Internet Archive instead.
>>
>> A key to a solution may lie in the comparative analogy that Wikipedia is
>> like the only restaurant in a food desert. It could be a McDonald's, KFC,
>> BK, Taco Bell, White Castle, or so on, but customers are forced to go there
>> to dine in every time, even if some does not really like their food. Thus,
>> they will be really happy if a second restaurant is opened at the location.
>>
>> If Musk is really serious in fixing whatever problems Wikipedia has
>> brought as a result of its internal problems, then he would be wise in
>> angel-investing any alternatives which aims to become a better or
>> next-level version of Wikipedia.
>>
>> The hypothetical rival alternatives could come in the form of a more
>> comprehensive encyclopedia, close to the level of a compendia. It can come
>> in a format similar to GitHub where anyone can present in their preferred
>> version of a subject instead of edit-warring at a small point, and if
>> version is good enough then they can be merged/pushed/vouched by other
>> users to work upon and goes to the top in ranks.
>>
>> In fact, every edition of page histories are logged by Wikipedia when a
>> change is make, but in addition to heuristic placements which make these to
>> be perceivably obscure, those would get redacted if the page in question is
>> deleted.
>>
>> Forking contents from English Wikipedia isn't really a big problem since
>> all you can do is to go to the Wikimedia dump site and look for enwiki, but
>> the biggest issues are how to convince editors and readers alike to move
>> over to the alternative. One possible solution that I can think of in terms
>> of editors would be a pitch promising that the contents will eventually get
>> copied into discs that lasts for billions of years and launched to the Moon
>> and beyond for posterity.
>>
>> It is entirely possible that if such solution with out-of-the-world
>> approach had been thought about earlier, the synergies that led to all sort
>> of intractable conflicts in Wikipedia could be cut by a half or so. Perhaps
>> inside Wikipedia the environment would not resemble an authoritarian police
>> state like now. After all, you can find so many real stories echoing the
>> same theme on Wikipediocracy, Wikipedia Review and Wikipediasucks.co, which
>> are like how Xenu.net is to Scientology.
>>
>> Finally this post is released under Creative Commons CC0, which is a
>> public domain as the only thing I want is let everyone know how Wikipedia
>> really works in the inside given the recent attention to Musk's comments
>> against it and to dispel idealistic notions (as seen in WhitePeopleTwitter
>> regarding Musk's tweet) that overrated it beyond what should've been, while
>> hoping for alternatives to spring up to provide greater opportunities for
>> anyone to preserve histories without corrosive influence from systemic
>> biases such as those in Wikipedia.
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