So I posted a rant a while back about the bullshit I've encountered dealing with anti communist chud articles. Funny enough I've managed to pare three back pretty significantly. The dude that was a thorn in my side has left Wikipedia. I might be able to get one communism evil article deleted. Also this fucking hero came in to actually back me up in the talk pages, which is pretty rad. But tbh compared to her, I'm fucking tiny.

So I started following this one page pretty closely as it's a popular topic and it's owned by the chuds. It's pretty frustrating as the other side gets to be as dirty and edit warring as possible, while we in the minority need to follow Wikipedia policy to the T. Literally everything I edit has at least 3 scholarly sources, yet gets reverted immediately. Literally everything I try to roll back for being bullshit gets reverted. I'll cite the actual wikipolicy, and quote the source word for word, but they're like "but it's the preference of the editors" and "I don't think that matters" and I'm all grr you guys are definitely stonewalling. There's like two editors, one which is definitely gonna get a ban at some point in the distant future as his edits are just obvious lies, the other which is a power editor who is clearly gaming the system by taking every bad edit as far as possible and tying things up with debates while he edit wars.

I have to be a lot more patient, as this is a topic which libs side more with the chuds. I'm not expecting a lot of help from the admin boards.

Sorry this is totally boring. You can totally bully me for being a nerd.

  • Anarchist [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I had a doomer experience with Wikipedia recently that made it clear just how fucked up that entire site is.

    I searched for a relatively obscure dancer/choreographer/musician on Wikipedia who was openly a lesbian in the 1900’s.

    No mention of her identity or sexuality. Huh. Weird. I click on the "talk" tab.

    Some weirdo has deleted the entire section that was there about her identity because it didn't have "correct" sources.

    I clicked on his history.

    His history was a hog lagoon of edits on fash shit, anti-communism, SWERF propaganda, and a bunch of erasing queer people across Wikipedia. Also multiple comments about feeding fetishes and “historical pederasty” on pages that didn’t seem related to either of those… topics.

    There was close to zero pushback on anything except for the feeding fetish comments.

    It was the final nail in the coffin for me about Wikipedia being a net useful to society.

    Edit: Reading through this thread shifted me back towards just feeling burnt out and neutral about it vs thinking about finding Jimmy Wale’s address to send him a box of glitter.