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Re:Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. atto... by LightHugger on Saturday April 26, 2025 @05:06AM (#43802021)
This is a lie. Wikipedia directly excluded reliable sources that countered and only cites sources that are as biased as possible for that article. Like i said, literally just switch the language to japanese, translate back to english and you will get a completely different set of information that is far less biased.

Gamergate is also not a misogynist harassment campaign. Please don't spread lies and misinformation, thanks and try to be more honest and less of an idealogue.

Re:Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. atto... by 20after4 on Saturday April 26, 2025 @06:57AM (#43802518)
Perhaps it is your perspective which is biased and that leads you to project that accusation towards the wiki (and the gp commenter here)
Re:Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. atto... by scarab92 on Saturday April 26, 2025 @08:45AM (#43803108)
I think their comment is fair.

Wikipedias policies to promote neutrality are often counter productive.

Because neutrality is hard to define, what these policies actually do is progressively raise the effort required to keep or remove a particular point of view. Unfortunately, requiring more effort also means substituting the point of view of knowledgeable but time poor and inexperienced contributors, with the point of view of time rich chronic contributors and admins. The result is that instead of neutrality, you actually select for the strongest held points of view of a small ingroup of chronic users. The viewpoint diversity of such users is extremely low, which is why you’ll notice all controversial topics tend to lean a certain way.

Re:Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. atto... by rafram on Saturday April 26, 2025 @08:53AM (#43803160)
Wikipedia presents consensus as a proxy for the truth. Pretty sure the consensus on GamerGate is that it was a misogynistic harassment campaign.
Re:Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. atto... by LightHugger on Saturday April 26, 2025 @06:48PM (#43807926)
Then why are other language articles completely different? Have you gone and checked? Are all the other articles just wrong? Why is the "consensus" for the gamergate article citing direct primary sources that were involved and attacked by gamergate instead of reliable and impartial secondary sources? Nobody has even bothered addressing any of questions or points i brought up yet. Because they break the narrative.

The way the article is written is arguably biased and irrational on it's face, when reading it you should get the feeling of something being amiss and information being excluded. Sometimes you can just tell when writing is biased based on the language, it's a pattern that's good to learn.

Re:Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. atto... by 20after4 on Monday April 28, 2025 @02:34AM (#43818276)
I tried the spanish and japanese articles, translated back to english. Neither article seemed to be drastically different, at least not in the first few paragraphs. I'm just not seeing the bias, other than a bias towards reality.

There is evidence¹ that the whole gamergate thing was an organized harassment campaign pretty much from the start. Further, the "ethics in game journalism" argument was a calculated and intentional misdirection, used as cover to provide plausible deniability to the harassment campaign.

1. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/09/new-chat-logs-show-ho...