Wikipedia editor 'warriors' fight lies, bigotry and even Nazis


Though it's a sprawling platform, the site does not seek to make money and so avoids the profit-over-safety criticism that has battered Facebook, for example. — Photo by Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash Photo by Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash

WASHINGTON: False Covid death reports, a vast gender gap, Nazi "fan fiction": These are some of the perils an international crowd of volunteers battle across Wikipedia's tens of millions of online entries.

The world's largest Internet encyclopaedia is often the first result to pop up when users ask the Internet a question - and thus a massively influential source of free information but which also reflects humanity's faults.

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