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[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

Except there are defacto central authorities governing certain pages.

Not only that there's a turf war going on for control of them.

Certain ahem religious organizations monitor a variety of pages and snipe any changes they disagree with. Businesses are doing it too.

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago

And certain politicians

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] not_a_bot_i_swear@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Probably all of them... Just a guess though.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I haven’t participated in wikipedia enough to see how these turf wars play out. I’ve heard that, unsurprisingly, there are groups that control pages, some opposed and some unopposed. It’s a really interesting thing to me.

I’m afraid of politics, generally speaking. But I bet it would be interesting to be a part of all that.

this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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