A little background for those who are unfamiliar with Wikipedia's behind the scenes stuff. There are lots of wikipedia projects related to all sorts of topics. Any article related to a specific project gets tagged as being a part of that project. So the GamerGate article is tagged as of interest to WikiProject Video games, WikiProject Feminism, WikiProject Journalism, and WikiProject Internet culture.
Have you guessed what the problem is? Of course, it's the feminists!!
So this screenshot shows the WikiProject Feminism Page.
Of issue is that little sidebox showing which articles that intersect with WikiProject Feminism have had the most active editing in the past few days. Most active editing is defined by number of edits by any wikipedian, as there's no official way to track who is a part of which wikiproject. And any edit counts. So a popular article is often high up, even if no real changes have been made, because vandals do something stupid and then get quickly reverted. But those are facts, and of course, facts are not important here.
A crop of that sidebox gets posted to KIA by /u/staylaughing, who proclaims:
They literally raid articles they don't like, and vandalize them with bias.
Modern wikipedia editors are spineless people who won't edit anything for truthfulness and if there's any war over an article you can pretty much bet SJWs to win it after they lock it.
So much lol here. Vandalize with bias. Apparently, bias is now a weapon. Hi, I'm /u/hermithome and as a social justice warrior I don't weild and axe or a sword, I weild bias.
Also, modern wikipedia editors? As opposed to the wikipedia editors of yore, back when ye old internet was an untamed jungle tackled only by the spiniest of men?
/u/GUIpsp quickly points out that the image is meaningless as that's simply the number of edits by all wikipedians and gets downvoted for his trouble.
There's some amusement over the Hitatchi Magic Wand article, as they think the feminists are hard at work editing that. They aren't. In fact, there aren't even lots of non-feminists editing the article. As GUIpsp points out, one person is editing the article, they're simply doing it a lot.
/u/Nokanii takes issue with a comment from the article talk page:
The assertion that there was collusion by journalists on a mailing list is Breitbart et al fueled fringe conspiracy, and has no place in this article I'm sorry Tarc, but you're downright stupid if you think that, considering the people involved have admitted to it.
Lol, right, sure.
/u/mandraxhair adds:
Yeah I thought at this point we knew who leaked it too and it was a reliable source and someone on that list...
I thought we knew who leaked it....yes, totes reliable.
/u/CFGX gets to the heart of the matter, where is Jimmy Wales? (sidenote, gamergate peopls have been furiously tweeting at Jimmy Wales to get rid of the evil feminists)
So much for Wales locking this shit up. Yeah, I mean, you get pissed off about women taking your games and tweet at a guy who owns an Encyclopedia, of course, the first thing he'll do is ban all the feminists and let you write articles any which way you want.
Give him time, Wikipedia is way bigger than this entire controversity, if he's looking at it, he'll probably look from the bottom up. He probably doesn't want to rush to any conclusions, and if he finds the accusations correct, he'll probably try to find the highest member of the "SJW" chain, and ban them all at once, instead of just this small part.
Hahahahahaha. They really think that "SJWs" are a legit conspiracy with ranks and everything. Topple the highest ranking one, and the rest will be confused and lost.
I'd like to believe that. But somehow SJW's have a way of convincing normally rational minded people to believe their crazy bullshit ideas.
It's mind boggling.
Shocking, that rational minded people are for social justice. Very strange that.
They use moral threats. "If you ban us, it makes you a bigot!" Nobody wants to be a bigot, so they avoid bans.
Lol. If only.
Bullshit Wales knows exactly what's going on, he knows there's a project feminism, he knows they shit on every article they touch, and he knows he's not going to do shit about it unless the gamergate movement wins out, then he'll change it at the last second so he can pretend he's not a biased prick. Fuck that guy and his shit site.
Wut. Gamergate "movement"? Wins out? Wins what? And Jimmy Wales really isn't responsible for the details of particular articles, except of course for his own (he has a bit of a history of meddling there).
Also, Wikipedia does have a history of being a site very active to women and feminists, but nope, its still not enough for GGs. Because clearly, just by dint of existing, they're running wikipedia.
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