Estonian and Lithuanian media have recently reported coordinated mass Wikipedia edits aimed at normalizing the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states as legitimate statehood.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Kind of weird to see OP out here arguing for people to donate to Wikipedia…

    The core problem seems to be capacity: Wikipedia’s scale, multilingual sprawl, and procedural complexity mean that if Estonia’s and Lithuania’s volunteer communities only notice changes when they become “critical,” it may already be too late to prevent a narrative from hardening into the default global summary. Loopholes like this make Wikipedia attractive for hostile info warriors.

    But the article is correct, stuff like this can be nipped in the bud, but due to a forced reliance on volunteers, there might not be the manpower to catch these things early.

    Don’t just give up on Wikipedia, if it wasn’t effective these douchebags doing fraudulent editing for propaganda purposes wouldn’t be so long the ridiculous amount of time this takes, especially when the account doing it can be identified and easily removed once it’s noticed.

    No different than banning trolls from a forum.