[Foundation-l] Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia?

Thu Aug 19 10:12:33 UTC 2010

On 19 August 2010 10:10, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yesha Council prapares to war on Wikipedia?
> See:
> http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/the-right-s-latest-weapon-zionist-editing-on-wikipedia-1.308667
> any comments?

It made the Guardian as well.

Despite the media attention, I don't think the integrity of the
encyclopedias' content is in any danger at all, and I don't think this
is any sort of special case of activist attention.

Wikipedia gets waves of activists and is used to dealing with them.
The ones who don't take the time to understand Neutral Point Of View,
their stuff gets removed. The ones who do, their stuff stays and their
cause gets accurately described and represented. Best case, we get
more good new Wikipedians.

This applies to any activist for any cause whatsoever and has applied
at least since I started on en:wp in 2004.

The advice I have for activists is: strict neutrality with excellent
citations will do your cause justice. Everything else will be removed.

The broader advice is: there is no plausible attack on the integrity
of the encyclopedias themselves that is not already something we are
quite used to dealing with on a daily basis for many years :-)

- d.