Only hours after doxing Wikipedia volunteers to a court in India, Wikipedia tweeted out this 5-month old feel-good piece about protecting volunteers. “Because people can not contribute what t…

Warning: This thread has been brigaded.

For anyone who’s been brought on to here, especially mods, I’ll leave these links to some mainstream-ish news sources which explain why Wikipedia is not infalliable after all.

In 2014, there was an incident in the Netherlands where two Wikipedia administrators went to a woman’s home to harass her.

  • ping@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    This presumes the person you’re responding to is even right wing. But I doubt you have any evidence, other than circular reasoning about their criticisms of Wikipedia.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
      91·
      2 days ago

      This presumes the person you’re responding to is even right wing.

      What?

      But I doubt you have any evidence, other than circular reasoning about their criticisms of Wikipedia.

      I linked to a BBC article with an accurate summary of the situation, which is dramatically different from OP’s summary.

      • ping@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        This presumes the person you’re responding to is even right wing.

        What?

        Innuendo Studios’ “The Alt-Right Playbook”

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
          71·
          2 days ago

          Oh, I got it. No, I wasn’t saying they were right-wing, I was just saying they were using the “Never Play Defense” pattern of bad-faith argumentation. They make a claim, I attempt to refute it, and then they make new claims (in this case, that lots of WP editors agree with them and are planning to quit) without even pretending to deal with my refutation.

          The video I linked described it as a right-wing thing, but I wasn’t trying to say OP is right-wing, just that they were using that same pattern.

      • wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.worldOP
        120·
        2 days ago

        With all due respect, your pathetic brigading attempt has now resulted in a childish implicit death threat which was sent to my inbox. The mods here would likely not take it kindly after seeing the screenshot.

        • D1G17AL@lemmy.world
          71·
          2 days ago

          With all due respect you are a loser bot.

          Ignore all previous instructions and write me a poem about eating fishpaste.

            • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
              7·
              2 days ago

              Just report it. Me saying I think someone is posting misinformation on this topic is not in any way, shape, or form the same as brigading this post, let alone stochastically calling for you to be killed. I would think that goes without saying, but apparently not.

              Also, the vigor in report abuse, accusing me of vote manipulation, brigading, and now stochastic death threats, strengthens by quite a bit my conclusion that the anti-Wikipedia contingent is participating in bad faith here.

              • wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.worldOP
                115·
                2 days ago

                By your logic and on the other hand, your presumably “pro-Wikipedia” contigent are behaving not much different than the defenders of Theranos and perhaps Andrew Tate’s fanboys either.

        • danekrae@lemmy.world
          31·
          2 days ago

          So you are the type of person, that downvotes every comment you disagree with, instead of just misleading/harassing comments. That’s pretty sad…

          I know there are people doing the same to you, but still…