Wikipedia is up (2001)

Re:Wikipedia is up (2001) by mekoka on Sunday May 09, 2021 @01:09PM (#27097665)

Citations desperately needed. What do you hope to communicate with this tirade ? You're basically saying I spewed out a bunch of things, some of it is true. Figure out which.

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Re:Wikipedia is up (2001) by stefan_ on Sunday May 09, 2021 @03:45PM (#27099079)

Found the Wikipedia admin. These are well known issues:

"Wikipedia is losing editors": https://mashable.com/2013/01/08/wikipedia-losing-editors/?eu...

"Nearly all of Wikipedia is written by just 1 percent of its editors": https://www.vice.com/en/article/7x47bb/wikipedia-editors-eli...

"Wikipedia’s diversity gap echoes around the internet": https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/04/04/wikipedias-diver...

"Wikipedia has cancer": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

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Re:Wikipedia is up (2001) by kradroy on Sunday May 09, 2021 @05:20PM (#27099888)

I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted, because even Wikipedia acknowledges the issues with its contributor community.

Years ago I had a friend who worked for Wikimedia Foundation and was very enthusiastic about it. That optimism didn't last for long. He left after a few years citing WF's messaging style of "holding the content hostage" during fundraising drives and the established, exclusive contributor community that, more often than not, would drive away new contributors with snippy responses and arcane editing rules.

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Re:Wikipedia is up (2001) by zodiakzz on Sunday May 09, 2021 @07:08PM (#27100716)

Was he at a management position? Otherwise he seems to be poking where it doesn't belong. If a donation banner made him leave, I can't imagine him keeping any job ever.. you realize how little 99% of companies care about ethics (compared to making profit), right?

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Re:Wikipedia is up (2001) by Kim_Bruning on Monday May 10, 2021 @07:40AM (#27104829)

http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/WikiLifeCycle

Wikipedia seems to somehow be hanging by its fingernails for the last decade or so, despite being somewhere in the 20's on that list.

I guess something was done right. Next time even better?

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