EDIT : Wikipedia has basically ruled in favor of GamerGate and has banned well known feminist editors from editing ANYTHING gender related, not just GamerGate
If you don't know what this whole GamerGate thing is about, check out this link:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=135783202&postcount=5
This is extremely troubling, and it seems it will have a broad affect on all articles on Wikipedia that deal with gender issues:
http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...r-related-articles-amid-gamergate-controversy
In summary, Wikipedia has banned 5 well-known feminist editors from ever editing anything related to gender, and 5 "GamerGate" accounts from doing the same. However, these "GamerGate" accounts were just "throwaway" accounts, not well-known editors.
Key part:
The editors, who were all actively attempting to prevent the article from being rewritten with a pro-Gamergate slant, were sanctioned by “arbcom” in its preliminary decision. While that may change as it is finalised, the body, known as Wikipedia’s supreme court, rarely reverses its decisions.
The sanction bars the five editors from having anything to do with any articles covering Gamergate, but also from any other article about “gender or sexuality, broadly construed”.
Editors who had been pushing for the Wikipedia article to be fairer to Gamergate have also been sanctioned by the committee, but one observer warns that those sanctions have only hit “throwaway” accounts.
“No sanctions at all were proposed against any of Gamergate’s warriors, save for a few disposable accounts created specifically for the purpose of being sanctioned,” said Mark Bernstein, a writer and Wikipedia editor.
If you don't know what this whole GamerGate thing is about, check out this link:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=135783202&postcount=5
This is extremely troubling, and it seems it will have a broad affect on all articles on Wikipedia that deal with gender issues:
http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...r-related-articles-amid-gamergate-controversy
In summary, Wikipedia has banned 5 well-known feminist editors from ever editing anything related to gender, and 5 "GamerGate" accounts from doing the same. However, these "GamerGate" accounts were just "throwaway" accounts, not well-known editors.
Key part:
The editors, who were all actively attempting to prevent the article from being rewritten with a pro-Gamergate slant, were sanctioned by “arbcom” in its preliminary decision. While that may change as it is finalised, the body, known as Wikipedia’s supreme court, rarely reverses its decisions.
The sanction bars the five editors from having anything to do with any articles covering Gamergate, but also from any other article about “gender or sexuality, broadly construed”.
Editors who had been pushing for the Wikipedia article to be fairer to Gamergate have also been sanctioned by the committee, but one observer warns that those sanctions have only hit “throwaway” accounts.
“No sanctions at all were proposed against any of Gamergate’s warriors, save for a few disposable accounts created specifically for the purpose of being sanctioned,” said Mark Bernstein, a writer and Wikipedia editor.
