Rama on Nostr: One problem with Wikipedia politics is that everything takes place on a very meta ...
One problem with Wikipedia politics is that everything takes place on a very meta level.
Fascists will
→ capture disciplinary bodies that
→ police what people can say in
→ discussions that set rules on
→ how to edit articles, which
→ determines what is in the articles.
By the time Auschwitz had become a "collection camp" on the Croatian Wikipedia, it was far, far too late. Editing the article would not improve that Wikipedia, it would just get you banned from it.
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