The episode could erode trust in one of the last bastions of shared reality.
was opened on the article’s talk page on July 29; it is expected to run for 30 days, after which an experienced editor will assess the community’s consensus and the article will be updated accordingly. In the interim, the “two consecutive quarters” definition remains in the live version.
A volunteer administrator applied a weak form of protection, known as “semi-protection,” to the article on July 27. Intended to prevent disruption from vandals and new editors unfamiliar with the site’s policies, it limits editing to those whose accounts are four days old and who have made at least 10 edits.None of this is particularly unusual.
“There was just this sort of general sentiment that this was a really unique situation when it wasn’t,” said Samantha Lien, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia .But while Wikipedia’s editorial process kicked into gear, an entirely different process began playing out on Twitter., taken as a whole, shows edit warring that ultimately led to the addition of the “two quarters” definition to the lead. However, editors removed it several times.
Within hours, several other conservative sites picked up the story, all thinly rewritten versions of the Daily Wire’s piece.On Twitter, Mike Cernovich, an alt-right personality and conspiracist with more than 1 million followers, tweeted, “Wikipedia changed the definition of recession to favor the Biden regime, and then locked the page.” Again, the page was locked only to new editors, but the tweet received more than 48,000 likes.
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