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#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Dust Up on Wikipedia
There was this sort of dust up about the definition of recession in Wikipedia. The accusation was often quite ridiculous and extreme, which is under pressure from the Biden administration. What happened was one editor fought the article needed restructuring. And then we got a huge rush of trolls coming in. So the article was temporarily protected. People were told, go to the talk page to discuss. It was a dust up that was,. you know, when you look at it as a Wikipedia, you're like, Oh, like this is a really routine kind of editorial debate.
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