Isn't the UN like what makes the decision? Like the Geneva convention? Like what body needs to say it's a genocide for it to be a fact? https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds
Wikipedia has always been right wing, pro capitalist, pro US, propaganda. Very well done, with a lot of reasonable information too (which is of course necessary to allow the propaganda to be effective).
@cypherpunks he is wrong, as many genocide specialist (including those from Israel) will tell him.
He just supports genocide against people of different colour. It’s the American way.
@cypherpunks Wikipedia is human-edited, and humans are flawed. However, the body of editors overall means it is self-correcting, in time. Jimbo may be a founder, but as an editor, his is one voice only. I think it is grossly unfair to condemn the entire thing over one person's views. It is still the best source of info there is - overall. Some of the replies here are... disturbing, frankly.
I don't understand how Wikipedia ended up becoming the literal Holy Scripture for western liberals.
It is still the best source of info there is - overall.
This is a statement of pure religious faith.
@BrainInABox Is there a better one? Note that I said "overall" - meaning it isn't perfect.
A better one what? The best source of information will depend on the topic. The idea that there is a one stop shop for truth is pure religious thinking
I feel like there is a concerted effort to delegitimise Wikipedia recently. Long live Wikipedia.
Wikipedia has been a great way to launder right wing punditry into a form liberals will accept. People who would never otherwise give credence to people like Anne Applebaum or Thomas Friedman will treat their words as indisputable gospel if they're copy pasted onto Wikipedia.
Knowledge, especially free and easily accessible knowledge is detrimental to elites. Under educated peoples are easy to coerce, control, manipulate, scapegoat, scare, etc. So the easier it is for people to educate themselves, or just be educated the worse it is. Capitalists by default want dumb workers who don't know the meaning of value, it's part of the reason theres been a massive anti-intellectualist push this last decade or so.
Yeah, I'm sure the elites are terrified at you having access to articles overwhelmingly written by western libertarians that happily and frequently source right wing pundits.
@BrainInABox Left AND right wing "pundits" are frequently cited. Sometimes there are editing "wars" where the two sides erase each other's edits, but those are swiftly stopped and the issue is debated until a neutral consensus emerges.
The right detest wikipedia because their lies are removed, so they created grokipedia. Some of the left hate it for the same reason. Bizarre
Right wing pundits are cited overwhelmingly more and given vastly more wait, often being treated as reliable and undisputed sources of truth. If you look at the largest sources of pro-Isreal propaganda over the last two years, there's a good chance you'll find them on Wikipedia's trusted source list.
those are swiftly stopped and the issue is debated until a neutral consensus emerges.
No, what happens is that one side locks down the discussion, reverts all changes, refuses to debate in good faith, calls in sympathetic admins to discipline their opponents, locks the page, and, from personal experience, begins making organised attempts to dox dissenters. This is why dogshit right wing pundits like Anne Applebaum, and literal CIA propaganda outlets like Radio Free Asia, remain up as "reliable" sources permanently.
The right detest wikipedia
The far right detest it, the neoliberal centre right adore it for enshrining western supremacist neo-liberalism as cultural gospel.
Some of the left hate it for the same reason.
No, they hate it because the truth is removed and propaganda from entrenched neoliberal Zionist sources is treated as gospel.
@BrainInABox Sorry but that's simply not true. Spent any time reading the talk pages to see how things work?
Also you didn't answer my question on a better source of info.
[Added: never mind, I see you replied separately.]
That's what happens when you lack critical thinking.
Sit your ass down in Gaza, Jimbo. Your 'natural point of view' will drastically change.
The oligarchs long ago made Jimmy an honorary member of their club, and there’s nothing neutral about that club. Not that “neutral” even exists outside of the mind palace of radical centrists.
But not calling the Gaza genocide a genocide is a violation of truth, common sense, and basic decency...
But is it neutral? /s
Of course he did. Funny how he had no problem with their being a "Uyghur Genocide" page for multiple years before they eventually had to change it due to lack of evidence
@cypherpunks@lemmy.ml
There is no neutral POV regarding Genocide! Clainlming there is, just means you support genocide!
Yikes Wikipedia isn't just infiltrated by Zionists but created by one.
@geneva_convenience Wiipedia's creators have no power over it. Their personal beliefs are irrelevant.
No Wikipedia is very influenced by Zionists. This page is proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Monitor
Wikipedia has been irrelevant for a while now, they are only worried about what future LLMs will say about the genocide and Palestine in general so they are trying to suppress the rest of the references, compromising Wikipedia, buying TikTok, ..
English language Wikipedia is a US psyop. I wonder how much Atlanticist propaganda gets stuffed into other languages’ Wikipedias.
This is not an isolated incident, but a preview: more liberal masks are poised to fall.
Wow, with how much the right hated them I just assumed they were good guys. So much for that idea. Will no longer be supporting financially either.
I can't even talk on that page. This is how wikipedia dies
And just like that, Wiki made itself useless in this world...
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