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CNN and MSNBC are finally paying serious attentions to Wikipedia's problems (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Regardless of your standing with regards to the Israel-Palestine war, this is an unexpected development as now legacy networks are finally paying serious attention to criticisms of Wikipedia after years of neglect.

Any observers who've been following Wikipedia-related rabbit holes long enough would know that criticism of Wikipedia is for a long time dominated by the political fringes (i.e. far-right) and many Wikipedia critics normally gets ridiculed out of the room as they're been characterized as "fascists" and "anti-knowledge". Now it's like a dream come true for those critics as they seemingly get vindicated on television networks.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (11 children)

CNN...

Owned by conservative billionaires who said their goal is to emulate Faux News...

Gee, why would conservative billionaires be against free and available information to the masses?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Perfect sometimes is the enemy of good. At least the issues on Wikipedia are finally being taken seriously after years of neglect.

Gee, why would conservative billionaires be against free and available information to the masses?

This is a false dichotomy pigeonholing fallacy. Many critics do support Wikipedia as a concept, however they are pissed off by how toxic editors have captured the levers of power on Wikipedia and corrupted it. It's probably better for the knowledge market to consist of multiple platform instead of a single, suffocating monopoly, and there are already real efforts in addressing it, such as ibis.wiki.

Cory Doctorow's thesis on enshittification fits right in this case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's incredibly important that resources like Wikipedia remain neutral. I'm glad more people are paying attention to this now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's right. The other day I had shared a PDF document on this sub that is a court document, regarding serial harassment and stalking incidents done by some toxic editors against an academic on Hebrew Wikipedia. Unfortunately I had removed it with the help of a mod because the document, which is publicly hosted on Wikimedia Foundation's governance website, contains unredacted personal information.

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