floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoBerkeley Students Make 300,000 Wikipedia Edits to Preserve Queer History Against Trumpwww.them.usexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareMwa@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoDoesn’t Wikipedia have moderation?
minus-squareHazor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoYes, but given that anyone can contribute anonymously, verifying every edit is a practical impossibility. Wikipedia relies on good faith in a world where bad faith isn’t exactly rare.
minus-squareMwa@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI mean some articles have write protection(only signed in users with latest some edits) no?
Doesn’t Wikipedia have moderation?
Yes, but given that anyone can contribute anonymously, verifying every edit is a practical impossibility. Wikipedia relies on good faith in a world where bad faith isn’t exactly rare.
I mean some articles have write protection(only signed in users with latest some edits) no?