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Wikimedia Bans Admin of Wikipedia Croatia For Pushing Radical Agenda (therecord.media) 209

The Record reports: The Wikimedia Foundation has banned the administrator of the Croatian version of Wikipedia after an investigation revealed that together with other admins, they edited and distorted content on the site with radical right views. This group had de-facto control of the website between 2011 and 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation said in a report published earlier this month... This included:

- Claiming that Hitler attacked Poland and started World War II after the Poles committed genocide against Germans.
- Redefining a World War II concentration camp as a labor camp...
- Pushing opinions that EU decision-making endangers Croatia's sovereignty.
- Claiming that the EU had used propaganda to trick Croatian citizens into joining the European Union...

Since 2013 the dubious edits had been spotted by users and the Croatian press, according to the article — but other Croatian Wikipedia editors failed, multiple times, to wrest away control of the site's moderation.

"The Wikimedia Foundation got involved last year after it was discovered that the administrator of Croatian Wikipedia had been using sockpuppet accounts to manipulate discussions and staff elections on the site..." The Wikimedia Foundation's report on the abuses of this team also points to possibly similar far-right-based editing on Wikipedia's Serbian version as well. This is the second major Wikipedia scandal in the past year. In September 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation said it found and banned a public relations firm that had created and used a network of sockpuppet accounts to edit the site on behalf of some of its customers.
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Wikimedia Bans Admin of Wikipedia Croatia For Pushing Radical Agenda

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  • by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Saturday June 26, 2021 @11:14PM (#61525386)
    that's lies and holocaust denial. Can we please stop both sidesing everything, especially authoritarians and literal n@azis?
  • There's not a single area of Wiki without someone's piss in it.
    • by Reziac ( 43301 ) *

      In fact I was just ranting elsewhere that lately someone is going around adding postmodernist-style analysis to a lot of book descriptions, such that the author becomes depicted as either a white supremacist or properly woke, as the opinion of the editor may choose.

      Way too much piss in that pool anymore.

  • Pushing opinions that EU decision-making endangers Croatia's sovereignty.

    How is this an opinion, and a far right one at that? Isn't it fact? EU membership comes with a sovereignty trade-off, which most EU members have decided is worth it. The UK for example, decided it wasn't worth it. Meanwhile, the discussion of ever tighter integration continues, and of course that will come at the loss of more sovereignty.

  • So, the Left's agenda on Wiki is just fine, it's only the Right that is wrong.

    BOHICA
    • Either I'm a lot further to the right than most people, or there isn't really a substantial right wing anywhere in the world. (Right would oppose left, on pretty much every point, yet aside from a VERY few including myself, no one does.)

      I don't expect the far-far-left to give me a platform. My principles say that their platforms are theirs and that it would be wrong for me or others to try to gain control of those by any other than strictly lawful means, means that do not violate the rights of anyone, not

  • Journalist/Analyst presents fact; Broker 'generates' opinion;

    "Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time" --Benjamin Disraeli (b. 1804)

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