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Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’ (www.404media.co)
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Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia’s cofounders, was banned from editing the site indefinitely after other editors determined he was canvassing, or in other words, calling on his followers off platform in order to influence Wikipedia’s content.

Sanger has spent more than a decade criticizing Wikipedia for what he claims is an ideological, left-wing bias on a variety of topics, and on X has framed this recent ban as further proof of everything that’s wrong with Wikipedia. The New York Post took that bait and last night published an article with the headline “Left-leaning Wikipedia blocked founder from editing site—after he campaigned to make it more balanced.”

Wikipedia editors obviously reject that framing and say that Sanger was banned for wielding his followers to sway discussion and decision making on Wikipedia. The discussion that led to the decision to ban Sanger concluded with what an editor called a “clear consensus” to ban Sanger.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 80 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Leftist, even

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 51 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Colbert used the term in a more traditional sense, as opposed to how it's sometimes used now as an insult by harder leftists.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 25 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The more traditional sense is the global definition.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 31 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I knew you knew that, my comment was more for the passers-by who may not even be old enough to remember that it was a Colbert quote.

[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I like how we all make comments for chat now, but there's probably only like what a thousand people who comment on lemmy regularly?

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

We have no idea how many lurkers, with registered accounts or not.

[–] DanWolfstone@leminal.space 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

We are more numerous than you think

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 2 points 8 hours ago

31 comments in 16 months, you ain't kidding.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 21 hours ago

👍