Non-English Editions of Wikipedia Have a Misinformation Problem
summary
Claims that Japanese Wikipedia hosts coordinated historical revisionism backed by a small group of power editors who use admin tools to delete edits and block critics, with concrete examples: the Nanjing Massacre article titled Nankin jiken with no photos or infobox, and comfort women pages using baishōn (prostitution). Metrics: Japanese Wikipedia averages ~1 billion pageviews/month, over 40% anonymous edits, about 40 administrators versus ~1,100 on English Wikipedia and English has ~120,000 editors. Proposed fix: a single shared corpus served by machine translation; foundation lacks Japanese-speaking staff and did not detect the problem.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:38Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment
- 5:58Language and Culture
- 9:44Characteristics of Japanese Wikipedia
- 15:38Importance of Diversity
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