Fifty editors at Wikipedia ban Daily Mail based on some anecdotes

Posted by lyceum under Social Media
From http://jackyan.com 2840 days ago
Made Hot by: logistico on February 18, 2017 11:52 pm

How right Kalev Leetaru is on Wikipedia’s decision to ban The Daily Mail as a source.
This decision, he concludes, was made by a cabal of 50 editors based on anecdotes.
I’ve stated before on this blog how Wikipedia is broken, the abusive attitude of one of its editors, and how even luminaries like the late Aaron Swartz and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger chose to depart. It’s just taken three years or more for some of these thoughts to get picked up in a more mainstream fashion...