Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life

thefp.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 11 posts

Re: I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life

#3

Post by nephihaha »

I have personal experience of being stalked by at least two administrators on there, leading me to go back to unnamed editing. They were clearly more interested in personalities than content. One of them tried to put copyright strikes on some of my articles even though it was clearly stated that the article used out of copyright material. (Which was on other websites.) In another case, an article of mine he tried to delete has been translated into at least ten other languages, so obviously people do not see it as worthless as he did.

There was no adequate complaints procedure against this, with admins just closing ranks. I edited Wikipedia for at least fifteen years. I was unpaid but I received numerous stars for good content. At the end of the day, I feel used, especially with commercial websites and LLM using Wikipedia for source material.

On some of the smaller Wikipedias, individuals have basically taken them over. This happened with the Greenlandic Wikipedia, resulting in it being taken down.

Re: I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life

#4

Post by cyanydeez »

SO nowadays, you really need to grab your paradox of tolerance, and ask youself, is the person preaching "openess" or "diversity" or whatever through the looking glass opinion or proposal or whatever will actuall increase overall diversity, or will it just arm a very loud, belligerent and agressive set of people that if it were reversed, wouldn't dare to do the same.

Of course it's not perfect, but there's a lot this world trying to use "tolerance" to ply people out of systems that are moving towards progressive diversity that necessarily must exclude a subsect of destructive vices.

Re: I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life

#5

Post by metalman »

from what I know about how wiki is funded, and run, with like less than 5% going to the actual production and maintainence of the web site, it is absolutly no surprise that the rest is a mind boggling shit show,which it is, that we of course, cant actualy drag out and show and talk about in plain language

Re: I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life

#8

Post by tim333 »

I'm not sure about the gripes like

>pro-Iranian regime sentiments are permitted to spread

Wikipedia has never been about banning particular sentiments. If there was a factual issue like it giving the wrong death count from protests I can see that being a problem but I haven't seen many examples of those.

The only fact I'm aware of which I think is wrong is

>...SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally released from a laboratory have been proposed, such explanations are not supported by evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_SARS-CoV-2

which I feel is incorrect as there is evidence if not conclusive evidence.

Re: I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life

#9

Post by nchmy »

nephihaha wrote: post #3

I have personal experience of being stalked by at least two administrators on there, leading me to go back to unnamed editing. They were clearly more interested in personalities than content. One of them tried to put copyright strikes on some of my articles even though it was clearly stated that the article used out of copyright material. (Which was on other websites.) In another case, an article of mine he tried to…

I tried to make a contribution a couple years ago and was absolutely dumbfounded and exasperated beyond belief by the arbitrary, unsubstantiated rejections, bureaucracy, etc... An absolute cesspool of humanity.
Post reply on HN