255:(drafted in supposed consulation with all WMF editorial communities but largely ignoring all their feedback) is the key to diversifying Knowledge (XXG)'s editorial pool. (And as always in mainstream media, "Knowledge (XXG)" means en.wikipedia.org.) The entire UCC is basically a restatement of some key WP (and Commons, and Wiktionary) policies plus some WMF "vision" hand-waving. It's questionably reasonable to expect a largely redundant document, which was created for projects that lack sufficient policy development, and which has and will continue to have little impact on en.Knowledge (XXG), to cause a sea change in who volunteers to edit here. That takes real-world outreach on a major scale. One would think a nonprofit CEO would already get that.
341:"It is possible to detect eerie echoes of the confessional state of yore", and today's far left is recycling techniques from fun times like the Inquisition." I've been saying this for years, and the article is a good summary of how "left-wing" and "leftist" do not always align with "liberal". It's an observation too few mainstream writers have been willing to make, but the truth of it explains a great deal of disruptive PoV-pushing on Knowledge (XXG). Illiberal left-wing activism is often harder to detect, and harder for the average editor to publicly resist, than far-right extremism, which we tend to recognize then delete on sight.
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anti-democracy propaganda and misinformation about the public health crisis. Iskander is correct that WMF isn't in a danger position in this, but the article strongly implies that
Iskander and WMF are keenly interested and involved. Even when prompted, Iskander does not meaningfully elaborate, and just offers an education-is-important dodge. So, we need more actual information on what WMF is doing with regard to efforts to revise section 230.
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Organization to provide additional credibility to that work." That's hard to distinguish from a statement that WHO
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implications (also not news). What we don't really think much about it is what this means for
Knowledge (XXG) long-term, as everyone with an agenda becomes more aware that they can try to sneakily leverage Knowledge (XXG) articles to boost their side of any story, especially after the Trump 2016 US
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going to turn into a bigger effort? There are a hundred ways (sensible and otherwise) this statement could be made to affect policy, funding, and the end "product" (though one suspects nothing important will change for the better unless the internal culture of WMF's organizational leadership also
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Next up, Iskander makes rather unclear reference to section 230 of the
Communications Decency Act. This content-liability shield has been much in the US news lately, as a target of the Republican Party in its feud with "big tech", especially social media sites deplatforming far-right writers for
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In short, I have hopes that
Iskander's NGO background will make for a better exec. dir. fit than that last two we've had, but right out of the gate she's saying strange, too-vague, and even troubling things. And nothing in the interview actually suggests anything like a fix for WP's editorial
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survey shows that people's editing motivation is often "their desire to change the views of society", and also that they view
Knowledge (XXG) as a "social media site". This isn't news to us, and the material doesn't have a huge statistical sample, but I would bet real money that it will be
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the relevant articles. But it's cause for concern whatever the truth is. WMF should not be "partnering" with any external body to influence the encyclopedia's content (especially not one that has taken as many credibility hits as the
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presidential campaign proved that powerful results can pulled off by organized manipulation of "social media" sites (whether WP really is one or not is irrelevant if the public thinks it is).
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