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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 11 months ago* by 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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[–] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

wales says all kinds of things all the time. some good, some bad. but after all he is the libertarian who built wikipedia’s anarchistic processes and editorial independence, so i heavily doubt this’ll have any challenge to that independence

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 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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