The Wikipedia elite who control the world's knowledge
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How Wikipedia became too powerful
The online encyclopaedia is the largest reference work in history but, with its founder accusing it of political bias, has it gone too far?
What is the price of information? For Osama Khalid, one of the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who edit Wikipedia, the tariff was 32 years in jail – his punishment for ‘violating public morals’ by posting news ‘deemed to be critical’ of the Saudi regime. Ziyad al-Sofiani, his fellow ‘admin’ (as senior Wikipedia editors are known) was handed eight years. Their jail terms were reported by activist groups around the same time that Wikimedia, the online encyclopaedia’s parent foundation, revealed that it had banned 16 users in the Middle East and North Africa region for ‘editing the platform in a...
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