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by limaoscarjuliet 439 days ago
BTW, I do not know why you are getting downvoted, this is a real concern that someone needs to tackle one day.
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Real concern or not, this is not related to the discussion at hand, which is AI crawlers hammering Wikipedia, which is related to AI crawlers hammering everything these days. Here's the concern at hand.

I would like to read on Wikipedia corruption with quality sources (in a separate HN post, which would probably be successful), but that's not quite on-topic here. Not only it's off-topic and borderline whataboutism, it's also not sourced, so the comment doesn't actually help someone who isn't in the knows. Thus, as is, it's not much interesting and kinda useless.

These reasons are probably why it has been downvoted: off topic, not helping, not well researched.

Fair enough!
I think there are a lot of blinkered folks who don't see the corruption with Wikipedia. What wiki are experiencing with bots is probably ubiquitous with every website yet the violins come out for them, one of the most corrupt institutions around.
It’s getting downvoted because the parent comment aligns with what Elon said about Wikipedia; so it’s a knee jerk reaction. Though the sentiment is factual.

Previous discussion: (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32840097

> sentiment is factual

the sentiment might exist, but that doesn't mean it's based on facts

that discussion you linked to can be broken down into:

- people upset because they thought Wikipedia was almost bankrupt and it turns out its not (though Wikipedia never claimed to be in its fund-raising)

- people upset because they see too many requests for donations

- people upset because Wikimedia execs are getting "high" salaries (though they are much _much_ lower than at private co's)

- people upset because they think Wikipedia spreads "left-wing ideologies"

None of this has anything to do with "corruption".