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I hear his long-term plan includes racing Usain Bolt when he's 75 and Paul is 64.

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[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Anyone can edit Wikipedia is a false belief. There are moderators who monitor popular posts from being edited. These moderators are usually from PR management companies who spend a lot of time editing pages to appear legit and also sell their services for a fee.

So, NO, anyone cannot edit it or even add factual data without the approval of a "moderator" who may be awfully biased at not letting bad comments about their clients publicized.

The founder himself is not hiding his bias. It's always been used as political and commercial PR by politicians and companies but with a cover of being an "Encyclopedia". Just like how many NGOs are fronts for government intelligence agencies.

If you want to prove me wrong, go ahead and give it a try and let's see how long that "edit" lasts.

[-] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 day ago

Yep. Anyone can “edit” wikipedia.

But the vast majority of edits by new users are reverted within a day.

I say this as someone with thousands of wikipedia edits myself, I talk from experience.

Most of the pages (especially politicised ones), have a couple senior users with vested interests continually monitoring it and changing back anything they don’t agree with.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Holy shit. Didn't have that on my bingo card. Fuck me, wikipedia too?

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