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| I just learned today that if you consider all of the English Wikipedia’s biographies of living people, and cross-reference that list with a server-level database of the pages that registered editor accounts have decided to put on their own “Watchlist” (to keep tabs on changes to the articles), something grave becomes apparent. | | I just learned today that if you consider all of the English Wikipedia’s biographies of living people, and cross-reference that list with a server-level database of the pages that registered editor accounts have decided to put on their own “Watchlist” (to keep tabs on changes to the articles), something grave becomes apparent. |
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− | Over 295,000 such biographies, or nearly 70% of all biographies of living people, are being watched by fewer than 4 registered accounts. Not to mention, there’s no telling if those watchlists are in the possession of accounts who log in daily or weekly or monthly or not since [https://web.archive.org/web/20100121231826/http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=271 Essjay said he was a multi-degreed theologian]. | + | Over 295,000 such biographies, or nearly 70% of all biographies of living people, are being watched by fewer than 4 registered accounts. Not to mention, there’s no telling if those watchlists are in the possession of accounts who log in daily or weekly or monthly or not since [http://web.archive.org/web/20100121231826/http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=271 Essjay said he was a multi-degreed theologian]. |
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| No wonder libel and defamation abound on Wikipedia. | | No wonder libel and defamation abound on Wikipedia. |