[nephihaha]

I have personal experience of being stalked by at least two administrators on there, leading me to go back to unnamed editing. They were clearly more interested in personalities than content. One of them tried to put copyright strikes on some of my articles even though it was clearly stated that the article used out of copyright material. (Which was on other websites.) In another case, an article of mine he tried to delete has been translated into at least ten other languages, so obviously people do not see it as worthless as he did.

There was no adequate complaints procedure against this, with admins just closing ranks. I edited Wikipedia for at least fifteen years. I was unpaid but I received numerous stars for good content. At the end of the day, I feel used, especially with commercial websites and LLM using Wikipedia for source material.

On some of the smaller Wikipedias, individuals have basically taken them over. This happened with the Greenlandic Wikipedia, resulting in it being taken down.

[nchmy]

I tried to make a contribution a couple years ago and was absolutely dumbfounded and exasperated beyond belief by the arbitrary, unsubstantiated rejections, bureaucracy, etc... An absolute cesspool of humanity.

[nephihaha]

Early Wikipedia was great. I was able to help build articles on many subjects which were underrepresented elsewhere. Then slowly bureaucracy crept in, and an ever changing forest of jargon and rules. I edited it for quite a while and feel used. A bot marked one of my edits as vandalism because I altered "brother German" to "brother german"! (One is a brother who is from Germany, and the other is a full brother through both parents.)