So, it would appear that there wasn't already a thread about this on here, so I'm getting one started. This is a general megathread for posting stupid shit that you found on Wikipedia, including stupid misinformation and stupid drama.
I'll get the thread started with a few examples. For one, this recent "Did you know..." box could almost pass for a parody:
The article about Jex Blackmore appears to have been fully created about a month ago. March 29th when was when it stopped being a redirect, and was mostly what it is today. This is clearly an astroturfed-in art project from someone who has no talent, no skill, and is likely mentally ill. In other words, perfect for Wikipedo. With that said, you can tell that even the s who wrote the article know that this person is batfrick insane.
Here's some more recent drama, in which self-professed neurodivergent anarcho-communist Dronebogus calls a columnist a "transphobic wackadoodle" (in blatant violation of Wikipedia's so-called rules against personal attacks), then gets another user permanently banned for making very light anti-
comments:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LadybugStardust#May_2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ponyo#LadybugStardust
Much like Le Rebbit, Wikipedia has been completely overtaken by mentally ill activists in recent years.
Wikipedia is primarily edited by the same kind of people who post on Reddit (i.e. porn-addicted neckbeards/s), and this screenshot of Wikipedia's examples of "multiracial people" speaks for itself:
There is always drama surrounding Wikipedia articles about internet trolls, whether it's regarding G*merGate, Kiwi Farms, imageboards, or anything else. Recently, Wikipedia purged all references to Kiwi Farms "targeting" far-right users. The Wikipedo jannies - many of whom, again, self-identify as communists - declared that catboy/Nick Fuentes criticism from Kiwi Farms users is only "infighting" because the trolls are all, of course, far-right themselves.
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Needless to say, it's hard to keep the "internet trolls are all Nazis" illusion around if they mention facts to the contrary. Having the fact that Kiwi Farms keeps threads on the likes of Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer be public knowledge opens people up to asking "but why would they be fighting other far-right people if they're far-right themselves?" and we definitely can't have that!
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Wikipedia is really just a battleground between differing factions to the point each faction tries to be on their own side and conquer. Some Polish nationalists got caught editing several Wiki pages on how all Poles were good Poles during the Third Reich and all helped Jews (don't ask them about the '45-46 pogroms).
Oh now, I realize you're the dude who got out of jail a month ago. Yeah, frick everything I said
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Wait... why does what you said not apply because of that?
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You should join the jidf ping group. You can abuse it in bad faith if you want but it would be funnier if you actually participate in it
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The actual JIDF is literally just one guy in a basement, and he has absolutely no power or influence whatsoever. In fact, the JIDF is such a nonentity - yet such a supposedly omnipresent alt-right boogeyman - that it can be said to be the alt-right equivalent of Emmanuel Goldstein, the state's invented "Enemy of the People" from 1984.
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Frick he knows!
SHUT IT DOWN NOW!!! RUN!!!!
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Yeah, I first heard about them from /pol/, so I checked out the website and their program, aand it's less than a dozen employees and <100 volunteers who use their app to reportmaxx people.
All that /pol/sperging about nothing was such a disappointment. The !jidf were probably the only ones on /pol/ talking about it too.
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Yeah but this JIDF is actually a shadowy cabal in charge of the site, Aevann bows to us. Its up your alley
Right
@Aevann?
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Wrong. We're actually two guys in a basement.
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No, it's funny you're on rdrama, a Reddit offshoot of the best subreddit that ever existed, along with weev
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Does weev even hang out here anymore? I only see him posting on the Org.
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The inherent problem with Wikipedia is that it's built upon consensus and expressing the normative views on things. This is fine for hard science, questionable for soft science, and terrible for current events. Sources for English Wikipedia are going to be more English speaking, and more privileged in every way possible because that's who becomes an academic or accredited journos. The globohomo bent and nightmarish bureaucracy is the only keeping Wikipedia pages from flipping between the most wingcucked positions every other day.
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