There are topics where generally there is a lot of POV pushing (not necessarily fake news, just people adding unreferenced or poorly referenced POV material), for example see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Crimea which contains a lot of both pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian pushing. However, when it aggravates, it is easily stopped by applying a protection. There are few administrators watching these topics (I used to be one of them), but the protection requests rarely get rejected if the disruption is ongoing. An example of more difficult situation is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_referendum,_2017 where two groups of editors, pro-independence and anti-independence, are operating with two groups of sources (Catalan and Spanish central government) which often contradict each other. Most of the editors seem to be good-faith, but at the talk page they do not seem to be able to agree with each other, and the article generally can not be trusted. I am afraid the community does not have any capacity to go into details of the sources and to mediate the conflict. And articles like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_movements_in_Europe can contain all kind of bullshit, nobody cares. I do not think we currently have enough bandwidth to clean all these articles up, and the POV pushers know this. Cheers Yaroslav On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Devouard (gmail) <fdevou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the first answers, both online and private. > (the WikiData one is good and the List of Hoax should come handy. > I also got an excellent suggestion with a recent research : > http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/papers/wikiworkshop2018_paper_1.pdf) > > Let me be more specific... I am in particular interested in cases where it > involves systematic actions involving automated systems or very large (and > rich) networks against which the community would have difficulties to deal > with. > > For example, the issue with BDB and binary options. > > Flo > > > Le 27/04/2018 à 16:39, Yaroslav Blanter a écrit : > >> Hi Florence, >> >> this page might help: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia >> >> It is of course very different to create a complete hoax on Wikipedia on a >> topic which is heavily watched. It is much easier to create a hoax on an >> obscure subject very few people know about, then it has a chance to stay >> undiscovered for a long time. >> >> Cheers >> Yaroslav >> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Devouard (gmail) <fdevou...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi >>> >>> I have been proposed to give a conference about wikipedia and fake news >>> and to focus on very specific examples rather than general concepts. I >>> already have a few ideas but any pointers to particularly interesting >>> cases >>> or discussions will be welcome. >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> >>> Florence >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >>> i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >>> i/Wikimedia-l >>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >> i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >> i/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
