A raft of misinformation has been coming from inside the house of verification. Now the 'misstatements' are clear as day.
https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/lies-damned-lies-and-union-busting-statements-42254598b6e9 #Wikipedia
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Jake Orlowitz
@JakeOrlowitz@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Founder of the Wikipedia Library, 1Lib1Ref, WikiBlueprint, Project 2029. Author of Welcome to the Circle. Advancing open knowledge, well people, and sane societies. Fighting disinformation with style.
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Joined January 17, 2017
Brooke Vibber is joining the Community Tech Team... at Wiki Project Medicine Foundation! https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/wiki-project-medicine-builds-its-own-community-tech-team-a3f8fc760bec #Wikipedia
"Wikipedia editors have a phrase for someone who doesn't belong: 'not here to build an encyclopedia.' In June, a community discussion applied that phrase, and a community ban, to Larry Sanger. A founder was just banned for not being there to build the very encyclopedia he founded." https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/not-here-to-build-an-encyclopedia-4e6c5df7c503 #Wikipedia
The Foundation behind Wikipedia cut its hiring map nearly in half and called it streamlining. Read against its own staffing vendor’s data, the countries it kept and the countries it dropped trace a certain logic, along with one country it cannot seem to make up its mind about. #Wikipedia @jakeorlowitz@medium.com
Most crowdsourcing projects fail, for the same reason most human projects fail: the world is indifferent to our hopes, and the hard things are hard. The few successes everyone cites look inevitable in hindsight, the way survivors always do. The question is not whether crowds can be powerful. They plainly can. It is what switches that power on, since it does not switch on by itself. #Wikipedia https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/just-add-crowd-215af09e2f91
A newly published plan would defund the movement’s user groups, carve the map into exclusive territories, and build an audit that can end affiliates outright, the newest turn in a twenty-year pattern of power handed down and drawn back the moment it threatens to harden into a right. #Wikipedia
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/the-foundation-giveth-and-the-foundation-taketh-away-25bb59f63177
Remember When Wikipedia Was the Biggest Danger to Students? A history of twenty years of panic https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/remember-when-wikipedia-was-the-biggest-danger-to-students-856342de66df #Wikipedia
When they mentioned interviewing volunteers who spent as much as thirty hours a week researching and writing an encyclopedia that handed them no byline and no paycheck, listeners kept asking the same baffled question... #Wikipedia https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/why-would-anyone-do-this-for-free-1e161eaa0dd9
"In September 2015, I set off a small war between two groups of people who agreed about almost everything."
https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/the-encyclopedias-own-library-12f30899c8ae #Wikipedia
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@slowenough@mastodon.social Also, it's really THIS piece which has the questions that need to be asked. https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/is-neutrality-a-property-of-the-wikimedia-foundation-9ca09f386824