Wikipedia editors have too much time on their hands is what I’m gathering lol. Look at this page and imagine this is the average amount of discussion they have between themselves to determine if they should ban you, if they should delete a page, if they should revert an edit, if they should… And they do it all for free! You might think it’s neat that they care so much, but really mediawiki is not meant for such long discussions and the obfuscation is playing in their favour. If you don’t know how wikipedia works, you can’t defend yourself when they want to ban you. You’re gonna get dragged in days-long discussions over the privilege of keeping your account and get shouted down if you raise your voice because you have to be civil.
I actually wrote about Wikipedia for prolewiki: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia. tl;dr the editors are ~90% white men and the admins are handpicked by other admins. Wikipedia is a tool of US imperialism and Jimmy Wales lies about the success of his “encyclopedia” to make his weird libertarian ideas seem like they work in real life.
Wikipedia editors have too much time on their hands is what I’m gathering lol. Look at this page and imagine this is the average amount of discussion they have between themselves to determine if they should ban you, if they should delete a page, if they should revert an edit, if they should… And they do it all for free! You might think it’s neat that they care so much, but really mediawiki is not meant for such long discussions and the obfuscation is playing in their favour. If you don’t know how wikipedia works, you can’t defend yourself when they want to ban you. You’re gonna get dragged in days-long discussions over the privilege of keeping your account and get shouted down if you raise your voice because you have to be civil.
I actually wrote about Wikipedia for prolewiki: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia. tl;dr the editors are ~90% white men and the admins are handpicked by other admins. Wikipedia is a tool of US imperialism and Jimmy Wales lies about the success of his “encyclopedia” to make his weird libertarian ideas seem like they work in real life.