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Re:After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't ne... by b65e8bee43c2ed0 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @07:39AM (#46657602)
it absolutely has been. like every online community, Wikipedia is extremely vulnerable to the terminally online and/or the mentally ill, to whom everything is political. like clockwork, every remotely political article cites opinions only from a certain perspective, often quoting glorified nobodies to assert the narrative the '''editors''' want to present. dissenting opinions, no matter how overwhelmingly common among the real people, are mentioned in passing at best and often derisively.
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Re:After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't ne... by philistine on Saturday January 17, 2026 @07:52AM (#46657679)
> mentally ill

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That Wikipedia has been co-opted by mentally ill people is an extraordinary claim. You should provide more than feelings.

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Re:After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't ne... by nephihaha on Saturday January 17, 2026 @11:58AM (#46659597)
Wikipedia's model does favour autistic* people and those with a lot of time on their hands. You can see this in the sheer volume of some contributions, their focuses and the invention of obscure rules and Wikipedia specific jargon e.g. peacock terms etc.

* ASD is not a mental illness but it can produce quirky and obsessive behaviour.

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Re:After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't ne... by dataflow on Saturday January 17, 2026 @08:36AM (#46657961)
Links to examples would go a long way.
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Re:After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't ne... by breppp on Saturday January 17, 2026 @10:06AM (#46658618)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/25785648.2023.2...

For example, this article goes over disinformation by polish nationalists on Holocaust related articles. There's a chart with 10 editors accounting for 50% of the edits and another chart that shows disproportionately citing authors that in reality are not academically are under-cited

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Re:After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't ne... by tim333 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:05PM (#46660941)
I went to Wikimania in London and the community who turned up were pretty middle of the road types. Mostly retired males doing after it they'd finished with their prior job in a variety of fields.
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