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Wikipedia: Problems
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Wikipedia's volunteer administration executes policy with technical interventions, with brief votes open to most users, with a volunteer mediation process and with an arbitration committee process based on public airing of evidence or opinions about various grievances. While Wikipedia offers venues for conflict resolution, they have been criticized by some Wikipedians, with some people feeling that the process is unfair and others feeling that it is too unwieldy to resolve problems in a timely fashion.
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No privacy policy! [One] problem is that most of the administrators at Wikipedia prefer to exercise their police functions anonymously. The process itself is open, but the identities of the administrators are usually cloaked behind a username and a Gmail address. (Gmail does not show an originating IP address in the email headers, which means that you cannot geolocate the originator, or even know whether one administrator is really a different person than another administrator.) If an admin has a political or personal agenda, he can do a fair amount of damage with the special editing tools available to him. The victim may not even find out that this is happening until it's too late. From Wikipedia, the material is spread like a virus by search engines and other scrapers, and the damage is amplified by orders of magnitude. There is no recourse for the victim, and no one can be held accountable.
Phil, the problem here is that you are talking about "Terms of Service", but there are none on Wikipedia. Go ahead; go now to Wikipedia. Scroll to the bottom. You see "Privacy policy", "About Wikipedia", and "Disclaimers". No "Terms of Service".
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