wikipedia’s salad days over?
As I’ve mentioned before, the worry to I have about wikipedia is not that it doesn’t get enough respect, but rather that it will get too much. That will attract mainstream attention, and paid wikipedia editors & lobbyists etc who will screw up the whole thing.
Until recently, the vast majority of users & editors were committed to wikipedia’s objectives. But soon wikipedia will be innundated with professional partisans, paid to make their clients look good.
Here’s a link about some of them who got banned from wikipedia. I’m not sure of the details of the organization they work for, but apparently it has ties to big oil & defense contractors, among others.
The glory days of wikipedia may be about to end.
