rose.parks(a)att.net wrote:
Hi members,
I very rarely post to lists, but this thread is bothering me a lot. I have read
the posting on Stormfront, as well, as at least 75% of the postings on
“Neo-nazi to attack.”
Despite this, I see only editors reacting as if
what they have read on this site is
going to happen, and exactly as described,
i.e. all members of the
Stormfront site are to
login as users of Wikipedia and try to influence all the articles
related to their position
to make them POV.
I have little doubt that the members of this site
hope to disrupt Wikipedia in a big
way. But, frankly, they already _have_.
Editors, who usually would be
working on articles,
are now developing tactics to combat this neo-nazi POV attack. This is
their first success.
Score one for Stromfront!!!
Second, do you all really believe that if they intended to do exactly as they say,
they would post their tactics openly on their site? I wonder! I think
that they
_do_ intend
to do damage to Wikipedia, but the details are probably in private
mailings among members of
their community. Meanwhile, they could be using their postings as a
_diversion_, and while
everyone is concentrating on monitoring certain articles, they could
do something entirely
different to damage our site. I leave it to those more technically
inclined to try to figure
out what that might be….
Just my thinking….
As Ever,
Ruth Ifcher
I doubt that's really much of a valid concern, frankly. For one thing,
this has become a useful policy discussion, I think. For another, the
operation of Wikipedia hasn't been "disrupted" at all by this
discussion, as far as I can tell. Finally, I think it's likely that the
Stormfront guys don't so much want to "damage" Wikipedia as they simply
want their perspective to be heard. Whether or not there's any validity
to their perspective, that would require keeping Wikipedia in working
order, not damaging it.
--
Chad