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One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia (2021)

5 points| throwrqX | 2 years ago |wired.com

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jruohonen|2 years ago

People like her are the reason I believe in Wikipedia.

One thing I hope they'd do is to better curate their pages on historical revisionism, negationism, pseudohistory, and the like in order to better keep track of all the bad, false, or fabricated sources flying around.

Of course, academia and its funders are partly to blame because OA has not still caught up that well.

jruohonen|2 years ago

As someone did not like my comment, I can add that it is not just this particular case; many historical events and episodes are subject to the same thing. For instance, this case is highly debated here with lots of dubious claims, opinions, and non-academic sources thrown around:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization

As archives are not really yet available, its mostly weaponized in politics even today.