r/Israel • u/Aaron_R_JNS JNS - Aaron • 2d ago

General News Anti-Israel editors using ‘subtler’ ways to slander Jewish state on Wikipedia, ADL says

https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/anti-israel-editors-using-subtler-ways-to-slander-jewish-state-on-wikipedia-adl-says
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u/taney71 1d ago

Wikipedia is trash. There are bots but also people who are super editors who just go to town on these pages everyday. They write into them crap and then defend that crap from edits. Our future online is not good

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u/1nc06n170 Israel 1d ago

The Wikipedia workflow seems flawed. It’s strange that an editor can single-handedly change any page just because they feel like it. There should be a review system, and should involve more people in suach a review when a page with higher than usual visits is being edited.

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u/JzargoKhajiitMage Israel 1d ago

The way wikipedia works just seems like pure bureaucracy hell. If you ever looked at talk pages, you'd realize they fit the definition of a fedora-tipping ultra redditors.

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u/ilivgur Israel 1d ago

I'd settle for some review process of banned editors' edit history. There were a lot of people recently that been banned specifically for this type of behavior, but their edits are still up there and are still protected by Wikipedia policy.

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u/guywhoeatskolace4565 Czechia. (on a new acc, old one got banned) 1d ago

Wikipedia is such a bunch of shit. They said on the Oct. 7 article that it happened due to the 'famine' in Gaza at one point.

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u/ilivgur Israel 1d ago

This what happens when an entire community decides to allow Al Jazeera full credibility on I/P, while banning Israeli sources due to "bias".

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u/gal_z 1d ago

The stupid thing is that it's against their own policies to use AJ in articles about this conflict (apparently on other topics it's okay, while the History Channel is completely banned because of their alien stuff; Nice to see how consistent they are), yet they still do.

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u/Apprehensive-Cap4840 Italy 1d ago

It's one of those cases where instead of expressions like "he was shot to death" they say "he died of a sudden and acute lead poisoning", only it's anti-Israel. No surprise there...

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u/OsoPeresozo 1d ago

Like the absurd wikipedia page for Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon that used to have his location of death as “Lebannon” (he died in the Columbia disaster)

That page still has a ridiculously detailed explanation of how he “Hebraizied” his last name, in the first section on the page.

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u/ZZZZapperr 1d ago

Wikipedia needs to be sued for false advertising. It's not a real encyclopedia.

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u/low_cur 1d ago

Look at the recent flag change on the 'Houthis' article

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u/adasmialczynski3 14h ago

They don't even try to hide who they're standing with anymore. Thankfully the Wikipedia in my language still has the actual Houthi flag.

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u/Background-Ad-2002 1d ago

Is there any meaningful way to either have a standardization only to quality contributors on wiki? Or if that’s not a remote option, to instead just have a petition or some other formal process to boycott or take it down? I’m sure wishful thinking