Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages

Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by sam_goody on Friday March 15, 2019 @06:05AM (#19398213)

The greater the agenda, the less you can rely on the data. But the agenda is not always obvious.

I edited a technical subject [some 10+ years ago], and within minutes(!!) it had been changed again to a variant of what was originally there, I presume by a bot. Some further research taught me that the technical issue was actually a sensitive one for various new age groups. Since there is no way I could ever hope to manually compete with a team of scripted adversaries, I gave up.

Taught me something about Wikipedia.

Note: I have other edits that have been up for years, so not at all absolute.

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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by gbear605 on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:33AM (#19399516)

There’s a decent chance it wasn’t a bot. I have about a hundred pages on my Wikipedia watch list, and I get emails everytime a change is made to them. I check each one for whether it is a good change or not. An unfortunately high percentage are not (and by not good change, I mean unambiguous things like typing random gibberish).

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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by aaaaaaaaaaab on Friday March 15, 2019 @07:19AM (#19398583)

>Some further research taught me that the technical issue was actually a sensitive one for various new age groups.

Please elaborate!

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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by Diederich on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:44AM (#19400139)

Are you comfortable saying what the technical subject was?

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