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This week, Iona talks with Jack Despain Zhou about the shenanigans at Wikipedia

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Jack Despain Zhou , also known as Tracing Woodgrains , is an independent writer and law student.

In this conversation, we focus on the shenanigans at Wikipedia that are turning that formerly authoritative fount of crowdsourced wisdom into an unreliable, biased, and partisan site.

The basis for our discussion is Jack ’s detailed article on the topic.

Imane Khalif is almost certainly a person born male, wrongly identified as a female at birth because of the unusual, atypical formation of her genitalia, which has to do with a specific disorder of sexual development, from which she almost certainly suffers.

But the Wikipedia article manages to just dismiss all of that and in a very mendacious way.

The piece traces the internal workings of Wikipedia through one specific editor, the editor is Wikipedia admin David Gerard .

The piece was subtitled “ A Love Story ” and the subtitle “ Reliable Sources’s ” is “a love story” David Zuckerman says he had always seen Gerard in that light.

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44

Informative language

37

Neutral language

40

Article tone

informal

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English

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40

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possibly offensive

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medium-lived

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