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1. ripper+m8[view] [source] 2022-10-12 10:37:15
>>nickpa+(OP)
Eh. If you don't want to donate, don't, but I don't quite get the outrage here. The Wikimedia Foundation is still small as far as charities go and is visibly making Wikipedia better: the new UI is a breath of fresh air, and given the insane complexity of MediaWiki markup, the visual editor is a piece of unimaginable technical wizardry. Wiktionary is an unheralded gem and even Wikidata is starting to be genuinely useful.

For what it's worth, Charity Navigator gives them 4 out of 4 stars with a 98.33/100 rating: https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/200049703

Meanwhile eg the American Cancer Society gets 73/100 and spends more on fundraising than WMF's entire budget, so oncologists can snort blow off hookers in Vegas, but nobody cares.

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2. rany_+v9[view] [source] 2022-10-12 10:46:44
>>ripper+m8
I don't get the outrage either. It's almost like people want Wikipedia to be barely scrapping by which isn't good. Having some money in your reserves is fine.
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3. phpist+ne[view] [source] 2022-10-12 11:30:42
>>rany_+v9
I want Wikimedia, and Wikipedia to be a Neutral historian of world data and events, to preserve facts and promote the free access of those facts to everyone in the world.

They have strayed far far far far far from that goal

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4. Arkhai+sk[view] [source] 2022-10-12 12:14:04
>>phpist+ne
1) Is there a neutral historian version of world events?

2) Who chooses which facts show up, or how do we know if certain critical facts are missing?

3) In what way are they strayed far away from it?

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5. BlargM+Zu[view] [source] 2022-10-12 13:14:29
>>Arkhai+sk
>3) In what way are they strayed far away from it?

By introducing political bias into the selection and presentation of information.

If I check pages on feminism or even radical feminism, I wouldn't see any information on how some prominent early feminist figures advocated mass genocide of men. Most of the pages are generally shown benign.

If I check a few pages on prominent manosphere subcultures, I don't have to scroll far before the word 'misogynist' pops up, despite the fact both cultures are fairly similar (both contain a small extremist population and a large population of idealists), and feminism having far, far more text written, both per page and across Wikipedia as a whole.

Personally, I'm fairly certain spreading a few more words on the bloodlust of early feminists would shine a fairly different light on the movement without changing the ideology of the majority. It's not just information hidden away from high traffic pages, it practically doesn't exist if you don't know exactly what to look for. Yet any kind of filth is practically at the front for anything related to the countercultures. That reeks of tone setting.

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6. pelasa+HA[view] [source] 2022-10-12 13:39:39
>>BlargM+Zu
The Human page, is quite neutral too (/s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#Gender
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7. Arkhai+AZ[view] [source] 2022-10-12 15:24:34
>>pelasa+HA
Whats wrong with that blurb? The only bit missing a citation is "most societies have men over women", and that seems fairly unproblematic
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8. pelasa+O84[view] [source] 2022-10-13 13:07:52
>>Arkhai+AZ
> Whats wrong with that blurb?

well, the agenda trying to be pushed.

"Human societies typically exhibit gender identities and gender roles that distinguish between masculine and feminine characteristics and prescribe the range of acceptable behaviours and attitudes for their members based on their sex.".. Typically? Nope.

"The most common categorisation is a gender binary of men and women.[422] Many societies recognise a third gender,[423] or less commonly a fourth or fifth.[424][425] In some other societies, non-binary is used as an umbrella term for a range of gender identities that are not solely male or female.".. Many societies recognise a third gender? Nope.

Just some hyperbolic mischosen words right?

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