Another editor responded: “There's also an ‘ongoing controversy’ over whether mRNA vaccines cause ‘turbo cancer’ and whether [Donald] Trump actually won the 2020 Presidential election. Do you want us to be [bold] and go edit those articles as well?”

At face value, his response was tepid at best. Since I live in the US and have spent my adult life learning about all the genocide I was taught was something else, I don’t really buy into the “you’re giving undue weight to the UN and genocide scholars when you need to be giving the genocide committers due weight.”

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i think the headline is factually incorrect. jimbo specifically said he was doing this as a private editor and not on behalf of the wikimedia foundation.

also most people told him to cite sources or stfu. (which he promptly didnt do either)

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I think that's a distinction without a diffrence, considering he's the founder and public figurehead of the organization. That comes with certain restrictions, like needing to accept that you'd need to use an unrelated psuedonym if you really want to do independent work where your reputation would effect things.

It's kind of astounding how many semi-public figures fail to understand this.

[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I hope wikifreedia develops into something better than wikipedia

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Bombs in toys for kids isn't enough to dislodge the "neutrality".