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Don’t have the energy to do the due diligence here and I won’t just trust the headline because I have never heard of this source before. But I will note OP’s account seems to be a single issue account with a grudge against wikipedia.
Wouldn't be surprised if that's the person that wrote the post
Yeah I only see one person trying to launder their grudges publicly here, and it's not David Gerard...
You don't have the energy to check their claims but you do have the energy to claim that they are bad actors. Interesting. Gerard himself did something similar.
In case anyone is interested the OP was the one who did an earlier expose on the FAA's DEI shenanigans.
You must have misread my message. I never said that the claims were true or false, just that I’m sceptikal.
"OP’s account seems to be a single issue account with a grudge against wikipedia"
If you check OP’s account, you’ll see I’m right.
However that statement doesn’t say if OP is right or wrong.
Oh wait, you're right I was misunderstanding. I meant the OP as in tracingwoodgrains but you mean the lemmy OP.
Yet more absolute garbage from anonymous substack users.
There are plenty of “alternative wikipedias”. If you want an echo chamber that spouts unreliable nonsense, go use them. Or just facebook.
does the author of this blogspam thing wiki admins are manually changing articles?
In practice, this means Gerard scanning through dozens of articles in the span of a few minutes, tearing out all information cited to the Free Beacon
Dereferencing sources would be automated.
While by Wikipedia’s nature, nobody can precisely claim to speak or act on behalf of the site as a whole, Gerard comes about as close as anyone really could. He’s been a volunteer Wikipedia administrator since 2004, has edited the site more than 200,000 times, and even served off and on as the site’s UK spokesman.
....in addition to volunteering as a Wikipedia administrator, Gerard is the system administrator and owner of the Twitter account for RationalWiki
Wikipedia ties with RationalWiki is a cause for concern
Yup. Unfortunately it's far from an isolated incident. The surface is barely being scratched. This page back on Reddit has more Wikipedia scandals which you should know about.