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Jimmy Wales (wikipedia founder) joins Gaza genocide talk page, says Genocide is contested and pleades for "neutrality" (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Quote from him:

I assume good faith of everyone who has worked on this Gaza “genocide” article. At present, the lede and the overall presentation state, in Wikipedia’s voice, that Israel is committing genocide, although that claim is highly contested.

A neutral approach would begin with a formulation such as: “Multiple governments, NGOs, and legal bodies have described or rejected the characterization of Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.”

Respect for Jimmy Wales 📉📉

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[-] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 7 points 7 months ago

While it may look anarchist on the surface. Wikipedia is very much heirarchical and the power lies in few admins.

As an anarchist myself, and someone who has A LOT of edits on wikipedia, I wouldn’t call wikipedia anarchist. Crowdsourced, sure. Anarchist, no. The editor culture is no where near there.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 6 months ago

If by hierarchical you mean the role of social capital, I feel like that's how things would function in an anarchist society and I don't see a better solution. If by hierarchical you mean the WMF, then I agree (hence anarchistic instead of anarchist).

power lies in few admins

I don't think so, unless by "few" you mean a couple hundred.

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