As a wikipedia contributor (aroound 10-13 year old account) but not really serious, i have no kind words for wikipedia.
The trolling and brigading is alive and well there.
Thats the reason i stopped contributing.
As my name would suggest, I live in a hotly contested part of the world and I have hundreds of pages in my watchlist.
The amount of "bjp it cell" work they put in to portray their world view on Wikipedia is astounding.
Ithought naively for a few years I could fight them but I simply couldnt.
They just March across pages, make edits with their clear intentions and make you the enemy.
I remember a time when I had a particular "pronoun" ish word on certain pages and that was swiftly being edited out as soon as I changed it.
It became hopeless.
Besides, they just go "Well since this is "Indian" page, we are responsible to maintaing it in our image".
I dont really use Wikipedia these days because of their hate.
The trolling and brigading is alive and well there.
Thats the reason i stopped contributing.
As my name would suggest, I live in a hotly contested part of the world and I have hundreds of pages in my watchlist.
The amount of "bjp it cell" work they put in to portray their world view on Wikipedia is astounding.
Ithought naively for a few years I could fight them but I simply couldnt.
They just March across pages, make edits with their clear intentions and make you the enemy.
I remember a time when I had a particular "pronoun" ish word on certain pages and that was swiftly being edited out as soon as I changed it.
It became hopeless.
Besides, they just go "Well since this is "Indian" page, we are responsible to maintaing it in our image".
I dont really use Wikipedia these days because of their hate.