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by brucethemoose2
1032 days ago
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- Neither of these scandals, if true, would bring down Wikipedia. Not even close. Wikipedia's history is full of drama. - Not every huge outlet you contact is going to run with a story on a tip like this, especially if you aren't majorly involved with the stories themselves. |
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37416967
https://wikipediasucks.co/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2629&st...
Not just a run of the mill drama affair, it's a nuclear-grade scandal which will generate another MeToo phenomenon.
"For the folks at home, the story I was working on was going to be published by the Daily Beast in Spring 2024. Everything was in place then we had to go to both Wikipedia and the National Archives for comment, as required by law. Archvies wouldn't speak to us and Wikipedia threatened to sue, I suspect because of what we had found out about their administrators. The piece had mainly been about administrator abuse, using tools on Wikipedia to trace ip addresses, dox people's identities then harass them in real life. The Oberranks clusterf*k was a big part of the story, but not the entire story. The real beef of the article was about female editors on their site being stalked and even assaulted after having their identities revealed online by administrators. I found several cases of that including a woman who was stabbed outside her home in Mexico City by a stalker who had researched who she was off of her Wikipeida profile.
Daily Beast backed out because of the lawsuit threat, but I still have the whole story and might one day sell the rights. For now, its back to Eastern Europe covering real news."