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[–] 4 points 9 months ago

isn´t that just history revisionism because it´s uncomfortable for some baltic people?

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Kind of weird to see OP out here arguing for people to donate to Wikipedia...

    The core problem seems to be capacity: Wikipedia’s scale, multilingual sprawl, and procedural complexity mean that if Estonia’s and Lithuania's volunteer communities only notice changes when they become “critical,” it may already be too late to prevent a narrative from hardening into the default global summary. Loopholes like this make Wikipedia attractive for hostile info warriors.

    But the article is correct, stuff like this can be nipped in the bud, but due to a forced reliance on volunteers, there might not be the manpower to catch these things early.

    Don't just give up on Wikipedia, if it wasn't effective these douchebags doing fraudulent editing for propaganda purposes wouldn't be so long the ridiculous amount of time this takes, especially when the account doing it can be identified and easily removed once it's noticed.

    No different than banning trolls from a forum.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    The wonderful "AI revolution" is kind of the main reason this is an increasingly horrible problem. "Fighting back" against ever "smarter" bots is becoming increasingly hard.

    Even if the intents are not malicious, wikipedia is seriously suffering from the "AI revolution", this is a very interesting tiny research project that gives a glimpse of that: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-generated-content-in-wikipedia-a-tale-of-caution

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Beginning to think this Putin fellow might be up to no good.

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  • 2 comments in c/technology@lemmy.zip view that post
    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    why wikis are unsuitable for anything involving real-life disputes, part 398743425973947

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago

    Great. Perhaps 'they' can reduce the amount of Western propaganda in Wikipedia..

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