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Re: Wikimedia Russia has been dissolved

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Post by m00x »

klyrs wrote: post #6
coding123 wrote: post #4

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What is free speech if people cannot disagree with you?

Wikipedia, while still extremely useful, has slowly become a hivemind that remove changes if they disagree with them, even if they're backed by good sources.

Wikipedia is not a place for opinions and bias, but for facts.

OP should share his edits so we can see ourselves, maybe they're just bad, but I've also had edits removed from bias, especially on controversial topics.

Re: Wikimedia Russia has been dissolved

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Post by segasaturn »

coding123 wrote: post #4

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Are you making sure to include citations to proven reliable sources to back up your contributions? If so, then you can dispute any reverts on the article's Talk page. My experience with Wikipedia is that they are extraordinarily open and fair, and honestly they give more benefit of the doubt to editors than most of them deserve.

Re: Wikimedia Russia has been dissolved

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Post by brokensegue »

terminous wrote: post #14

Bad headline. What is dissolved is the non profit organization that exists in Russia to host events for Russian Wikipedians and other tasks. ru.wikipedia.org != Wikipedia Russia.

The headline is right. "Wikimedia Russia" dissolved not "Russian Wikipedia"

Re: Wikimedia Russia has been dissolved

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Post by keiferski »

segasaturn wrote: post #13
coding123 wrote: post #4

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Are you making sure to include citations to proven reliable sources to back up your contributions? If so, then you can dispute any reverts on the article's Talk page. My experience with Wikipedia is that they are extraordinarily open and fair, and honestly they give more benefit of the doubt to editors than most of them deserve.

Certainly the task of determining "the truth" is a difficult one, but Wikipedia's definition of reliable sources is not very good and basically just means "mainstream, well-funded news organization."

Re: Wikimedia Russia has been dissolved

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

sircastor wrote: post #17
coding123 wrote: post #4

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My crime was writing that flying saucers really exist, but for some reason I didn't get reverted. Maybe it was a different time O:-)

(if you can read wikipedia diffs here you go. It's in the edit summary, which is one of the two reasons the article still exists : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evoluon&diff=prev... )

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