The best feature about Wikipedia is the ability to dig through the history of each article to see just how much woke activism has destroyed certain articles over the last 5-10 years.... I can see Wikipedia taking that ability away soon.
Slowly but surely from 2014 to 2021, this article went from one describing facts about a delusional 18th-century woman to an article VALIDATING that insane delusion. Notice they even cropped the drawing of her to remove her real birth name.
And that change is a perfect illustration of a common trend among a lot of articles these days - virtually all of the "citations" come from 2 obscure books, one from 2009 and one from 2015. A handful of "academics" write a book or paper or something about their pet insanity, and suddenly it becomes "noteworthy" and the articles get updated.
The best feature about Wikipedia is the ability to dig through the history of each article to see just how much woke activism has destroyed certain articles over the last 5-10 years.... I can see Wikipedia taking that ability away soon.
It should also be noted that if they delete a page, the history gets deleted with it. It doesn't matter if the page only had a single edit to create it and is nothing but spam or if it had hundreds of edits; once they delete it, it's all gone.
http://deletionpedia.org/en/Main_Page sometimes the deleted pages can show up here and sites like it its mostly automated but the history is gone sadly sometimes a page is still on infogalatic that wikipedia decided to get rid of too
cropped the drawing of her to remove her real birth name.
Jesus Christ lol.
I like how the death and legacy section mentions a "Jemima weed" named after her. Someone who never read the old page would have no idea why, there's zero mention of the name of the page other than that. (well, apparently they can't censor the sources yet)
Yeah, it's gotten a little less insane lately... but such are the ebbs and flows of woke insanity. Give it another year and it'll probably be just as bad or worse as it was in 2020 again.
Who'd have known that we'd be scrubbing the name of two Jemimas in the name of wokeness in 2020? lol
The best feature about Wikipedia is the ability to dig through the history of each article to see just how much woke activism has destroyed certain articles over the last 5-10 years.... I can see Wikipedia taking that ability away soon.
Best example here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Public_Universal_Friend&oldid=985462160 (2020 version)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Public_Universal_Friend&oldid=594585082 (2014 version)
Slowly but surely from 2014 to 2021, this article went from one describing facts about a delusional 18th-century woman to an article VALIDATING that insane delusion. Notice they even cropped the drawing of her to remove her real birth name.
And that change is a perfect illustration of a common trend among a lot of articles these days - virtually all of the "citations" come from 2 obscure books, one from 2009 and one from 2015. A handful of "academics" write a book or paper or something about their pet insanity, and suddenly it becomes "noteworthy" and the articles get updated.
It should also be noted that if they delete a page, the history gets deleted with it. It doesn't matter if the page only had a single edit to create it and is nothing but spam or if it had hundreds of edits; once they delete it, it's all gone.
http://deletionpedia.org/en/Main_Page sometimes the deleted pages can show up here and sites like it its mostly automated but the history is gone sadly sometimes a page is still on infogalatic that wikipedia decided to get rid of too
Holy shit, they don't even have her real name now. Or, a literal "deadname".
Jemima Wilkinson was her name.
Jesus Christ lol.
I like how the death and legacy section mentions a "Jemima weed" named after her. Someone who never read the old page would have no idea why, there's zero mention of the name of the page other than that. (well, apparently they can't censor the sources yet)
Looks like the latest verision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Universal_Friend at least has (Born as Jemima Wilkinson) after her new uh... title? Still has the Stalin-esque cropped portrait.
Yeah, it's gotten a little less insane lately... but such are the ebbs and flows of woke insanity. Give it another year and it'll probably be just as bad or worse as it was in 2020 again.
Who'd have known that we'd be scrubbing the name of two Jemimas in the name of wokeness in 2020? lol
jesus christ