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The crying "History" button at the top right sends its regards. Yes, the World Jewish Congress has published a report that demands Wikipedia add a feature to view the history of articles, see what actions were performed by whom, and "host forums and discussions within the Wikipedia community to address concerns about neutrality and gather feedback for policy improvements". It also wants to force all admins and above to reveal their real names.

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[–] [email protected] 236 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Have they never been on Wikipedia before. You can already see the edits and attribution. If their information is correct they should submit an edit and offer proof. Going to be hard for them to sweep the Palestinian genocide under the rug though.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Israel has a team of people influencing the image of their state positively throughout Wikipedia. Get fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Can you not literally see the edit history of Wikipedia articles?

[–] [email protected] 77 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Yes, that's why this is in c/nottheonion

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Bias against Israel is similar to bias against racism/genocide, there is nothing bad about this at this fucking point

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don’t like any bias in my soup please

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

You're going to eat your bias and like it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bias is not making judgements based on facts and history.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bias is being more likely to come to a particular conclusion.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 7 months ago

Gee, I wonder what some murders want with the real names of people who they don't like.

Anyone curious why privacy is so important even if you've done nothing wrong?

[–] [email protected] 96 points 7 months ago

Fuck Israel.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 7 months ago (5 children)

By the almighty god that lives in fantasy land known as heaven, can those genocidal monsters shut up already?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like antisemitic hate speech...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

You'll need to publish your full name now.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago (1 children)

this PDF will probably be referenced in the “genocide denial” article in the not-too-distant future

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

The present report does not seem intended to be an academic publication, although it has already been used as a citation in the article Wikipedia and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But primary research isn't allowed as a source on Wikipedia...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

(someone smarter than me correct me if im wrong but) in this case it’s considered a non-primary source since the article is citing what the WJC said about Wikipedia (their criticism), not the WJC’s original research on the subject.

disclaimer have edited wikipedia maybe once in my life, only a small clue what im talking about

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 99 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Balanced and Zionist in nature."

He said the quiet part out loud.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

Balanced and Zionist

"The pancakes should be tasty and composed primarily of vomit"

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago

How about you go fuck yourself instead?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No red flags here at all.

All good. Make sure those dissenters get revealed.

I just -- wtf is wrong with the world rn...?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

wtf is wrong with the world rn...?

Conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (9 children)
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Means it's probably infected with who knows what kind of zero days.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (9 children)

The zionist scum hate Wikipedia because its hard to call it antisemitic

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

They can always fork it and see how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm sure Wikipedia are very concerned about this official PDF and they're going to implement the recommended changes immediately.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just love the absolutely hysterical desperation in the hasbara's every attempt to try and rescue the contrived (and thoroughly undeserved) PR image Israel once had thanks to Western media.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

challenges to Wikipedia's ideals include "The Power of the Admins and Beurocrats" [sic], as well as the gender gap

I wonder what would happen if you graphed the share of biographies by birth year. It'd probably increase over time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The Israelis failed to learn the lessons from WW II, because their playbook is from the NKVD and SS. Make peace morons.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Please don't do this. There is absolutely nothing strange or startling about a people who have been subjected to genocide going on to commit it (see also: Serbia).

This sort of finger-wagging is crude and insulting, and the only outcome is far-right Zionists trying to pin the Holocaust on Palestinians and claiming that Palestinian animosity towards Israel is because of a European-style irrational hatred of Jews, not its colonial and genocidal actions.

This is not a morality play.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

It is a sad day in history when the leader of the Israeli government hates his neighbour so much that he is willing to absolve the most notorious war criminal in history, Adolf Hitler, of the murder of six million Jews.

Damn. Cut right to the core, without any bluster or hyperbole - because it wasn’t needed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

They did learn… there using it in smaller form.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You know, not having read Wikipedia on Israel, and not taking a stand, those that think Wikipedia is biased could put up a simple wiki like page that lists the biases and rewrites the article in a way that they would consider unbiased. This would be in the spirit of Wikipedia. People could really decide for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago
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