i found this via https://www.thefp.com/p/i-founded-wikipedia-heres-how-to
i need a premium account to comment on that article, so let me post my comment here
Once upon a time, there was an institution that was trusted by the public as an impartial and reliable source of information. Then things changed. The institution still claimed to be impartial. Its leaders still repeated the same mantras about the truth and trustworthiness, but the information it provided grew steadily more ideological. The change became impossible to ignore—and the public started to ask: Does this institution deserve our trust?
If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it could describe so many of the institutions that we once relied on to bring us information. In fact, it might just be the story of our times. This crisis of trustworthiness is the skeleton key to understanding so much of the turbulence and disorder in public life today.
It’s certainly the story of The New York Times, NPR, and countless other media organizations. It’s the story of all too many institutions in medicine and public health.
It’s also the story of Wikipedia.
probably the biggest example of this story is the catholic church...
Wikipedia has an article titled “Yahweh.” I am a Christian, and I consider Yahweh to be the name of my God.
the religion of Christianity started as a small group of rebels, but then (as the group became larger) this opposition ("trend") was integrated into the empire, and from then on, it was just another controlled opposition, publicly giving hope to the small people (slaves), but privately controlled by the empire.
"you have owners. they own you." -- george carlin
There are two common types of blocks that I object to: the partisan and the petty.
my wikipedia account (Milahu) was permabanned in year 2024, because i have "insulted" other editors (i called them "stupid"), and the ban log says "Apparently he has no desire to contribute to the encyclopedia" in other words "he is just a troll", because their definition of "contribute" is "he follows our orders"
here is my edit, which was later removed as "vandalism"
translation:
Michael Ballweg was innocently held in pretrial detention for 279 days, apparently for political reasons, because Michael Ballweg was an organizer of the Querdenker protests against the coronavirus dictatorship. As a pretext for the pretrial detention, the prosecutor constructed a “flight risk,” but the confiscation of valuables and the pretrial detention obviously served as an attack against the Querdenker protests.
See also: Michael Ballweg#Strafprozess (where, unfortunately, only mainstream sources are cited, which protect the regime with their opinion journalism).
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But I'll spare myself the edit in the article, because also Wikipedia is ruled by idiots who abuse their power like any centralized structure. (Hate me cos im honest.)
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The fact that Wikipedia only allows sources to be cited that have been approved by the Ministry of Truth only confirms my statement that “also Wikipedia is ruled by idiots who abuse their power like any centralized structure.”
my radically simple analysis of all these problems is that "all large organizations are evil", so the actual problem here is that wikipedia is "too large".
the same analysis applies to "our" culture in general: every "too large" state automatically devolves into this disgusting "dictatorship of pacifism", always followed by overpopulation, degeneration, and collapse.
a similar observation was made by the youtuber Tilman Knechtel in his slogan "Trau keinem Promi" (trust no celebrities), because there is a "magic line" when people become "too famous" (too large), then they are offered a choice: either they "sell their soul" (become a controlled opposition) and work for the empire (give false hope to the slaves), or they continue their real opposition and get sabotaged and punished by the empire.
so the actual problem here is that wikipedia is "too large"
see also: The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
so the obvious solution is some peer-to-peer network, but as they say, "peer-to-peer is hard"... (what they actually mean by that is, most of our problems are not technical but social problems.)
two building blocks for such a peer-to-peer network are: tribalism = efficient teamwork in tribes of 150 people (https://github.com/milahu/alchi), and a generic voting and tagging system (https://github.com/milahu/p2p-killerapp/blob/main/doc/2025-09-04.generic-tagging-and-voting-system.md#prompt-1)
i am collecting possible solutions in my p2p-killerapp repo: https://github.com/milahu/p2p-killerapp
i am documenting abuse of power in my hate-maintainers repo: https://github.com/milahu/hate-maintainers-censored (more people should do that!)