Wikipedia bannaa keksijänsä

[jotunheimen]

Ikään kuin siinä jotain kummallista edes olisi (tietäjät tietää), toinen Wikipedian keksijöistä ei enää voi kirjoittaa sinne mitään, ikinä.

[El Mencho]

Vasemmalle kallellaan oleva ja siellä pysyttelevä.

Left-leaning website Wikipedia has taken the drastic action of permanently blocking one of its founders from editing pages — after he had campaigned to make it more balanced and fair.

Last month, Larry Sanger launched WikiProject Intellectual Diversity (WID), a group designed to help reinforce the online encyclopedia’s “original, firm commitment to intellectual diversity,” by emphasizing neutrality and transparency.

However, Sanger — who coined the name “Wikipedia,” drafted the site’s foundational set of rules and guidelines, and launched the site alongside Jimmy Wales in 2001 — is now indefinitely blocked from editing, the most drastic action the site can take against an editor.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/tech/left ... -balanced/

[Yrjö Yrjönpoika]

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No, täällä länsimaissa, missä niin helposti koemme ja tunnemme olevamme vahvastikin suorassa kontaktissa "länsimaiseen demokratiaan", saamme tuon tuostakin havaita, että pinnan alla vellova kommunismin magma tulee pinnalle usein juuri sieltä mistä me sitä vähiten osaamma odottaa.

[Insill]

Sanger was banned for off-Wikipedia canvassing and for not being on Wikipedia to build an encyclopedia, but to be clear, trying to start WikiProject Intellectual Diversity was not in itself a bannable offense. Canvassing is against the rules specifically to protect public and open processes that support the development of balanced articles. The canvassing guidelines discourage editors from trying to rig decision-making processes by selectively inviting participants who will take their side. The rules favor public discussions on Wikipedia so that all editors have an equal opportunity to participate. And since all Wikipedia edits are publicly tracked, editors can analyze each other’s contributions to detect biases and conflicts of interest. External invitations both selectively invite participation and prevent editors from exercising oversight. Volunteer administrators routinely block or even ban editors for inappropriate canvassing because this behavior compromises efforts to build a balanced encyclopedia.

Sanger’s recent advocacy reminds me of the pattern that researcher and Wikipedia editor Molly White described in January 2025: “right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.” In October, the Washington Post described Sanger as “fueling the right’s campaign” against Wikipedia. Among other incidents last year, House Republicans demanded disclosure of editor information over coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Sanger’s call to prohibit anonymity for the most dedicated volunteer administrators, one of his Nine Theses, is another one of his takes that would undermine intellectual freedom in the project, in line with the leaked Heritage Foundation plan to dox editors.

TechDirtissä oli hyvä kirjoitus aiheesta, kysymyksessä oli yritys kaapata valtaa Wikipediasta ja kerätä toimilleen kannatusta Wikipedian ulkopuolelta. Kuten eräs kommentoija kirjoittaa, Sanger on kuin Capitolin mielenosoittaja: hän yritti avoimesti tehdä vallankaappauksen, sai rangaistuksen, koska sääntöjä on sovellettava tasapuolisesti poliittisista vakaumuksista riippumatta, ja odottaa myötätuntoa – paitsi että tällä kertaa ei ole Trumpia, joka heiluttaisi hänelle ”pääse seuraamuksista ilmaiseksi” -korttia.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/06/wik ... -actually/